Ben to star on The Fateful Pattern?

According to an article, Ben is in negotiations for the male lead of the movie “The Fateful Pattern”, and will be directed by Meta Akkus.

Alex Brown of British production house Studio Eight Productions is producing the £1.2 m budgeted Oxford and Istanbul set drama, which will be shot for five weeks in Istanbul and a week in Oxford.

Akkus co-wrote with Joe O’Bryne (Pete’s Meteor) the 1950s-set story of a young Englishman who travels to Istanbul and falls in love with a mysterious rug seller.

Akkus is best known for her shorts La Solitude and La Peur. Cinematographer Vincent Mathias (State Affairs) and Art Director Frank Walsh (Agora [trailer]) are also attached to the project.

Studio Eight has produced and co-produced over 30 feature films including David Bailey’s The Intruder (Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Hannah) and Terence Ryan’s The Brylcreem Boys (Gabriel Byrne, Bill Campbell).

Akkus said, “On Sunday, the first woman won the Academy Award for best director and this was a momentous occasion. This autumn, I’m making my first film as a young director. I work in hope to be the first French woman to lift the same award one day, by touching millions of hearts with my stories.”

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Article from Russian Magazine translated

Thanks to Julietta and Boogiepop we could understand a bit what was said on this article. Thank you girls!

On this page, Ben talks about his role in the film Dorian Gray. He said he was satisfied with Oliver Parker, as a director. He talks about Dorian’s appearance and says that he wanted to dye his hair to the white colour, but director said that he wanted a “dark Dorian”, not like the one from the book. Ben was ready to disguise and put on contact lenses, but the director was against it.
Also Ben said that he likes the Dorian Gray adaptation by Herd Hetfield. Ben liked the film adaptation of Albert Lewis, but it (the screening) is too meticulous and too much of the original, in his opinion.

You can read another translation from the same article, here!

I know we already had changed the theme a few weeks ago, but unfortunately it had some errors, and couldn’t be fixed. I hope you like the new one!

Thank you Babi for helping me and making this beautiful header! :)

You can see more pictures from the movie “Killing Bono”.

Wrap Party

And the filming is over! They had a wrap party and this guy posted some pictures in his facebook! I still haven’t found in what page Ben’s appear, but Regys told me he had his hair cut! Just found this picture with Denis Halligan!

Edit: I found an album with lots of pictures from the Wrap Party and you can see Ben there! There are pictures of Ben in page 1 & 2!

We don’t have any information about this magazine, but Regys found it and the picture is one of our favorites, from that shoot, what do you think?

Thanks Regys for the news!

New Pics

Thanks to Neil McCormick for sharing those photos with us! Plus there’s a very interesting article that is really worth reading! You can find the pics in our gallery!
Below you can find some quotes!

The Undertakers first gig, Ivan (Robert Sheehan) & Neil (Ben Barnes)

I know there’s been a lot of interest in this in some quarters, so now that Hot Press has let the cat out of the bag, here’s a few moments from the set of Killing Bono, including the one that could upset the balance of the universe forever and send us all spinning off in some awful time bending paradox, the moment when I first met my younger self …

One of these Neil McCormicks still thinks he could become a rock star. But which one?

“Shortly after 3pm, having just jetted in from London, a rather wary-looking Neil McCormick arrives onto the set (he’ll be filming a small cameo tomorrow). A tall, handsome and silver-haired man in his late forties, he doesn’t look like a ringer for Barnes. (Or is it vice versa?).

McCormick still hasn’t actually met Barnes. “I haven’t met him, though I’m about to!” he says, looking mock-nervously around. “We did talk about this – Ben wanted to meet me and I wanted to meet him, obviously – you know, the guy that plays you. But then, it’s not like a biopic. In a biopic – you know, Bono is a real character in this, people know him, and the actor has to get him right, and has done a fucking incredible job. I see him walking around here and I see the younger Bono I used to know. But nobody knows who I am or cares. I’m just the catalyst, and the actor has to bring himself to it.

“Nick’s fear was that the actor would meet me and immediately start saying, ‘Well, he doesn’t talk with an Irish accent, so I’m not going to talk with an Irish accent’. But I’ve been in London for 27 years or something. And he did rather insult me, Nick did. He said, ‘You know that funny little thing you do with your mouth?’ And I said, ‘Yeah?’ Basically, only one side of my face seems to work. He said, ‘He’s going to start doing that, and the first two weeks of shooting I’m going to have him talking out of the side of his mouth’. So I said, ‘Fine, I’ll stay away’. So, because of that I didn’t meet him beforehand, and he’s got his performance together, and now I finally… I have the feeling that I’m going to walk in there and disrupt his concentration a little, when he sees the gap that exists between me and him. So it’s going to be interesting.”

McCormick certainly doesn’t have any complaints about Hamm’s casting Barnes to play him.

“I was talking about this with The Edge, and he was saying, ‘I want Brad Pitt to play me’. Everyone wants Brad Pitt to play them. Of course. But I’ve got Ben Barnes playing me. The only thing I was thinking was that he’s a bit too fucking handsome, because I figure that with my talent and his looks we could have really gone somewhere. I don’t think any record company would have been booting me out, looking like that.”

“I think it’s got a great script, it’s very funny, there’s a lot of energy, and Nick Hamm is doing a great job – but the weird thing for me is I’m not going to be me anymore. I wrote this book about being in the shadow of Bono, and I’m about to become a shadow of myself! People are going to think that I’m Ben Barnes!”

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