Press release from PRNewswire:
Hollywood film producer and founder of writemovies.com Alex Ross (The List, 2007- Warner Bros.) is delighted to announce his latest feature project THE CHIMES. The US$20m movie will focus on an almost cataclysmic love affair in the life of Oliver Twist author Charles Dickens:
When Dickens falls in love with beautiful mysterious Isabella he is drawn into her dark, dangerous world and risks everything to be with her, even his life.
Er -- back up there, boys. Isabella? Dark, dangerous world? Risks his life? It sounds like they started off with something that actually happened to Dickens and then took an abrupt left turn into sheer fantasy. And called the whole thing after one of his Christmas stories.
I don't really know what to think about this, folks. I'll check into it and see if I can find out more . . .
Update: A sparkly Dickens??
....?
Here I was excited to see an interesting adaptation of one of his minor works!
It sounds like they might be going all "Brought to Life" on us with this one.
Posted by: Nina | July 21, 2010 at 02:58 PM
Too bad they don't know that we did it first -- and best! ;-)
Posted by: Gina | July 21, 2010 at 03:01 PM
This is what it's like in the Poe world: sheer fantasy masquerading as "true story." So frustrating!
Posted by: Rob V. | July 21, 2010 at 03:20 PM
From what I can gather it's based on several tumultuous strands of Dickens life and is set around the time when he was writing The Chimes. Word in London is that the Producers are circling R-Patz as vibrant, sexy Dickens for the movie. This from theatre producer friends.
Posted by: Michael Hume | July 22, 2010 at 02:02 PM
Oh, LORD. Please tell me he doesn't sparkle.
(And thanks for the info!)
Posted by: Gina | July 22, 2010 at 02:18 PM
On a less flippant note -- so I'm guessing it's a sort of "Shakespeare in Love"-type story?
Posted by: Gina | July 22, 2010 at 02:24 PM
So we wait, and wait, and wait for a Dickens biopic...
AND THEY GIVE US *THIS*?
I don't even *like* Robert Pattinson. Dear lord, save us.
But thanks for the info, Michael! (But is this a joke? Since the main girl's name is Isabella, like a certain *other* R-Patz costar?)
Posted by: Nina | July 22, 2010 at 06:26 PM
I hope they change the plot. People can't stand historical inaccuracy--even the Young Victoria movie was criticized for inaccuracy, and that's one of the better biopics around.
Posted by: Marian | July 22, 2010 at 06:56 PM
Wha??
Posted by: Selenia | July 22, 2010 at 10:15 PM