Prince Caspian star Ben Barnes has been cast as Hamlet in Ophelia!
EW reports the movie will retell the story of the “tormented young Dane from the perspective of his long-suffering girlfriend.”
English actress Juno Temple (Atonement) is also set to play a “young woman slowly driven insane by an unavailable man.”
Director Dawn Shadforth, who has done music videos for Bjork and Oasis, will give the classic characters a modern twist à la Baz Luhrmann in Romeo + Juliet.
Ben Barnes should be jumping up and down right about now. 20th Century Fox is saving the Chronicles of Narnia franchise!
One month ago, Disney severed ties with Walden Media in co-financing the third movie, The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Variety is now reporting that Fox has taken over development and production. Wahoo!
The $140 million movie is expected to shoot in Australia and start as early as this summer. Prince Caspian cost $215 million to make and raked in $419 million worldwide. But that’s nothing compared to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which pulled in $745 million.
ALL HAIL, KING CASPIAN!
Prince Caspian star Ben Barnes keeps warm in a cashmere v-neck in the latest GAP ad.
The 27-year-old British actor recently got a dance lesson from Justin Timberlake!
“I am not the greatest dancer,” Ben revealed while promoting his upcoming feature, Easy Virtue. “And as you know, Jessica [Biel] is dating Justin Timberlake. And he can move. So Justin comes to the set on the day we are filming the big dance scene with Jessica. Seeing me make a pig’s ear of it, he steps forward and shows me how it goes. I mean how cool is that a dance lesson from the king of pop?”
Ben Barnes wears a slick gray suit at the Easy Virtue premiere during the 3rd Rome International Film Festival held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on Monday in Rome, Italy.
The 27-year-old actor just finished working on his next film, Dorian Gray. Barnes plays a corrupt young man who somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all. Colin Firth worked together with Barnes in both Dorian Gray and Easy Virtue.
Easy Virtue will be released on November 9th in the U.S.
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Jessica Biel suits up for the Easy Virtue photocall during the 3rd Rome International Film Festival held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on Monday in Rome, Italy. The 26-year-old actress joined costar Ben Barnes and director Stephan Elliot on stage.
Easy Virtue is an indie romantic comedy that tells the story of an American divorcee (Biel) who travels to the South of France and marries a young Englishman (Barnes) on the spur of the moment. The couple return to England to face his family, including his parents, played by Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas.
See pictures of Barnes filming here and Biel filming here.
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Prince Caspian star Ben Barnes looks handsome as ever at the “Bigga Than Ben: The Russian’s Guide to Ripping Off Londoners” Charity Premiere at the Odeon Covent Garden on Monday in London.
The 27-year-old British actor was joined by costar Andrei Chadov and director Suzie Halewood.
Bigga Than Ben is about Spiker (Chadov) and Cobakka (Barnes), two Russian “pieces of Moscow scum” who arrive in London with the hopes of earning a fortune and begin shoplifting in supermarkets, robbing banks and dealing drugs, along with the help of Artash (Ovidiu Matesan) and his sidekick Spartak (Fiennes-Tiffin).
The movie opens on October 10 in the UK and November 18 in the United States.
Ben Barnes films some rainy scenes on the set of his latest film, Dorian Gray, in Central London on Monday.
The 27-year-old actor plays Oscar Wilde’s title character, a corrupt young man who somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Dorian Gray, which also stars Colin Firth, Rebbeca Hall and Emilia Fox, will be released in the fall of 2009 in Britain.
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Ben Barnes enjoys the premiere of his latest movie, Easy Virtue, during the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival held at the Elgin Theatre on Monday in Toronto, Canada.
In this social comedy remake, a glamorous American widow (Jessica Biel) marries a young Englishman (Barnes) in the South of France on the spur of the moment, and they go to England to meet in his parents who take a strong dislike to their new daughter-in-law, and a battle of wits ensues.
The 27-year-old British actor recently sat down with Interview Magazine to talk about upcoming films.
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