SEPTEMBER 11, 2008.- MEL GIBSON FILMING IN BOSTON COMMON
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008.- VIDEO, MEL GIBSON ON THE SET
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SEPTEMBER 12, 2008.- RAY WINSTONE WILL REPLACE ROBERT DE NIRO
Source: Variety
Ray Winstone will replace Robert De Niro in "Edge of Darkness," starring alongside Mel Gibson in the Martin Campbell-directed drama produced by Graham King's GK Films.
Shooting began in Massachusetts on Aug. 18.
After two days on set, De Niro left the project over "creative differences" (Daily Variety, Sept. 5).More than one option(Co) Daily Variety
Winstone is negotiating to play an operative sent to clean up evidence in the murder of a woman. Gibson plays her detective father, who wants answers after his daughter is shot on his doorstep.
Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts and Bojana Novakovic also star. The film's based on the Campbell-directed 1985 BBC miniseries. King is producing with Michael Wearing and the BBC.
Winstone is repped by ICM.
Ray Winstone
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Biography:
Frequently cast as a working-class hard man, British actor Ray Winstone gained his first dose of international recognition for his brutal portrayal of an abusive, alcoholic family patriarch in Gary Oldman's Nil by Mouth (1997).
Born in Hackney, London, on February 19, 1957, Winstone spent much of his youth as an amateur boxer. He first stepped into the ring at the age of 12 and over the course of the next several years won over 80 medals and trophies. Reportedly deciding to give acting a try because he was tired of getting hit, Winstone studied drama for a couple of years at the Corona School. He got his first break when director Alan Clarke cast him in the BBC's televised production of Scum (1977), a harsh depiction of life in a Borstal for young offenders. Due to its content, the film was banned before being released theatrically two years later. Winstone began appearing in other films that same year, notably the Who's Quadrophenia.
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Winstone continued to work in both film and television throughout the next decade, doing most of his work in countless TV series. In 1994, he earned strong notices for his starring role in Ken Loach's Ladybird, Ladybird. Three years later, Winstone's harrowing performance in Oldman's Nil by Mouth garnered him a Best Actor BAFTA nomination, as well as recognition on both sides of the Atlantic. He subsequently could be seen in a number of diverse projects, ranging from Face, Antonia Bird's 1997 crime drama, to the romantic comedy Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (1998) to Tim Roth's The War Zone (1999), in which Winstone earned further acclaim as the abusive patriarch of a wildly dysfunctional family. Also in 1999, he could be seen playing a loan shark who gives Anjelica Huston a hard time in Huston's Agnes Browne.
Winstone gained wide international notice for his starring role in 2000's Sexy Beast, holding his own opposite Ben Kingsley, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance. He followed that up with a well-received part in 2001's Last Orders and parlayed his success into a supporting role in Anthony Minghella's 2003 star-studded Civil War drama Cold Mountain. Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
Other Films: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Beowulf (2007, Breaking & Entering (2006), The Departed (2006), The Proposition (2006), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008.- WHY ROBERT DE NIRO WALKED AWAY OF "EDGE OF DARKNESS"
Source: Boston Herald
It has been more than a week since Robert De Niro up and left the set of “Edge of Darkness,” the made-in-Boston Mel Gibson thriller, and the intrigue is still swirling about the superstar’s departure.
Although the official word on De Niro’s exit - after just one day of shooting - was the old Hollywood saw “creative differences,” insiders have been spinning a series of scenarios to explain the superstar’s abrupt departure.
One spywitness tells us that the two-time Academy Award winner left Boston after a disagreement with Martin Campbell over how many takes the director had De Niro do out at the Gannon Golf Course in Lynn last week.
According to that source, Campbell had Bobby D. repeatedly shoot and re-shoot a scene where his character tries to hit a ball out of a sand trap. At the end of the day, the actor reportedly approached the director to discuss the long day, and the discussion degenerated into a shouting match that culminated with De Niro hitting the road.
Yet another snitch reports that De Niro was asked to leave after he arrived on the set “unprepared.”
“That was the difference - they wanted him to know his lines and he didn’t,” said that source.
But others close to the matter scoff at that scenario, saying De Niro certainly would have been given more than just one day to rectify any preparedness problems, given his importance to the film.
“That dog don’t hunt,” said the actor’s spokesman Stan Rosenfield.
And still others suggest that the two leading men, De Niro and Gibson, weren’t getting along - with some going so far as to say that the “Taxi Driver” star was still miffed at Mel over the anti-Semitic remarks Gibson made during that ugly drunk-driving arrest in 2006.
But that also makes no sense, as Gibson and De Niro hadn’t even shot a scene together up to that point.
Producer Graham King, who brought “The Departed” to Boston and knows a little something about working with A-List talent, swears that there is nothing more to the story than real-life “creative differences.”
“The issue really was that Bob saw the character one way and we saw it another,” King told the Track. “And it was hard for Martin, especially, to get his head around how Bob wanted to portray the actor.”
Campbell, who most recently directed the James Bond flick “Casino Royale,” directed six episodes of the BBC miniseries that “Edge of Darkness” is based on.
“After a couple of conversations and after a couple days it wasn’t working the way we wanted it to go and it wasn’t working the way Bob wanted it to go and we just decided to shake hands and go our separate ways,” King said.
“At the end of the day it breaks my heart that Bob is not in the movie, but it’s all about the script and the character. There was no middle ground, so something had to give.”
“Mel is a pure professional and I love seeing him back in front of the camera,” King added.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008.- PHOTOS, MEL GIBSON ON THE SET OF "EDGE OF DARKNESS"
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2008.- PHOTOS AND VIDEO
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