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Winterbottom finds Promised Land, Arnold climbs Heights

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British director Michael Winterbottom has signed up to direct Promised Land, a film about the division of Palestine in 1948 and the creation of Israel. Jim Sturgess will star as a British officer caught up in the conflict.

The film, which had development funding from the UK Film Council, will be produced by Andrew Eaton for his and Winterbottom’s Revolution Films and is budgeted at £3m. Winterbottom’s current film, The Killer Inside Me [+see also:
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, is due to premiere at the ongoing Sundance film festival.

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Fish Tank [+see also:
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director Andrea Arnold will direct the latest version of Emily Bronte’s classic piece of literature, Wuthering Heights, adapted for the screen by Olivia Hetreed. Developed by Tessa Ross and Film4, the project has seen its share of ups and downs with John Maybury and Peter Webber attached to direct in the past, only for them to bow out. There has also been intense speculation around the casting of the central female role of Cathy with Gemma Arterton, Abbie Cornish and Natalie Portman being considered for the role with nothing being finalised.

Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae and Kevin Loader will produce for Ecosse Films with HanWay handling international sales.

Meanwhile, post the stupendous success of Slumdog Millionaire [+see also:
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, director Danny Boyle will return to his theatre roots with Frankenstein for the National Theatre, London in winter 2010. There will be a film element, as the play will be filmed for NT Live, the Theatre’s High Definition screening programme. Boyle will direct Nick Dear’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel. Before he broke into cinema, Boyle enjoyed a distinguished career with the Royal Court and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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