Joe Wright

Filmmaker JOE WRIGHT has emerged as a favourite to take on the big screen adaptation of erotic bestseller 50 SHADES OF GREY.Read Full Story

After a lengthy search, Universal and Focus Features seem to be closer to starting production on there much-anticipated adaptation of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Several sources tell Variety that while no deal is in place, Joe Wright is the choice to helm the feature adaptation of the E.L. James tome. Though some reports say Wright... Read more »Read Full Story

Theatre itself takes centre stage in “Atonement” director’s first play.“These roses are the bane of my life,” Ron Cook cried last Friday night at the Donmar Warehouse. His character, Mrs Mossop, never made such a complaint. Nowhere in Arthur Wing Pinero’s Trelawny of the Wells (1898), even with “most respectful additions and ornamentation” by Patrick Marber (2013), is the proprietess especially concerned with uncooperative props. Cook’s exasperation, collecting up the roses that had scattered...Read Full Story

There have been a few takes on The Little Mermaid, the Hans Christian Andersen story that is almost certainly better known as a Disney cartoon than it is in its original form. Now director Joe Wright (Atonement) will bring the fairy tale back to theaters as a live-action film. Cinematical reports that the new adaptation has been written by Abi Morgan, whose new take was inspired by a puppet show at the Little Angel Theatre Company. It's an interesting choice for Wright, whose arc goes like...Read Full Story

Theatre itself takes centre stage in “Atonement” director’s first play.“These roses are the bane of my life,” Ron Cook cried last Friday night at the Donmar Warehouse. His character, Mrs Mossop, never made such a complaint. Nowhere in Arthur Wing Pinero’s Trelawny of the Wells (1898), even with “most respectful additions and ornamentation” by Patrick Marber (2013), is the proprietess especially concerned with uncooperative props. Cook’s exasperation, collecting up the roses that had scattered...Read Full Story