Since completing her role in “St. Trinian’s”, model-turned-actress Lily Cole has turned her attention to two other film projects. Work was actually begun on the first of these some fourteen months before landing the part of Polly in the schoolgirl crime caper. Shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, an American visually influenced by the various stage personas of David Bowie, planned to star Cole in his upcoming movie “Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll” as Alice. Shorts from the movie have been posted on Marilyn’s website and a feature-length film is, supposedly, in pre-production. From the point of view of “Telly Visions”, it would be interesting to see Lily as Alice in that my first choice of actress in this blog series, Deborah Watling, also began her career playing the same character. I wonder how different is Manson’s vision of the subject to that of Dennis Potter’s?!!
The second project, involving Lily, sees her teaming up with former “Monty Python” animator-turned-director Terry Gilliam. She was signed to play the role of Valentina in “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” scripted by the director with his regular writing partner Charles McKeown. As well as Christopher Plummer and Tom Waits, the film was to have co-starred Heath Ledger. Originally scheduled for a 2009 release, production was postponed after Ledger’s untimely death. Plummer plays Parnassus, an immortal 1,000-year-old leader of a travelling theatre troupe that offers audience members a chance to go beyond reality through a magical mirror in his possession. Waits plays the Devil, with whom the Doctor has done a deal. Cole plays the Doctor’s daughter! (Another one!!) She falls foul of the Devil, when time comes to collect on the arrangement, and the troupe, which is joined by a mysterious outsider named Tony (originally Ledger), embark on a journey through parallel worlds to rescue the girl. Ledger’s role has been recast with Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell portraying physically changed transformations of Ledger’s character as he travels through different dimensions. Very interesting. It sounds not unlike “Doctor Who”, with an added touch of Peter J. Hammond’s recent “Torchwood” episode “From Out of the Rain”!
I hope Terry Gilliam’s film sees completion. Lily has suggested she finally wants to take up her place to read Social and Political Sciences at King’s College, Cambridge, to which she has already twice deferred entry. Education is important and, being an intelligent girl as well as a beautiful one, it would be wise for her not to miss out on such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It would be nice if she could fulfil both and no doubt this creates a dilemma for her. However, she seems to have already made the decision to put both her modelling and film careers on hold in pursuit of academic excellence. I must say, I don’t blame her. With the news that the go-ahead has just been given for a further instalment of “St. Trinian’s”, it would also be good to see her returning to the part of geeky-but-pretty Polly. I look forward to seeing how it all turns out for Lily.
The second project, involving Lily, sees her teaming up with former “Monty Python” animator-turned-director Terry Gilliam. She was signed to play the role of Valentina in “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” scripted by the director with his regular writing partner Charles McKeown. As well as Christopher Plummer and Tom Waits, the film was to have co-starred Heath Ledger. Originally scheduled for a 2009 release, production was postponed after Ledger’s untimely death. Plummer plays Parnassus, an immortal 1,000-year-old leader of a travelling theatre troupe that offers audience members a chance to go beyond reality through a magical mirror in his possession. Waits plays the Devil, with whom the Doctor has done a deal. Cole plays the Doctor’s daughter! (Another one!!) She falls foul of the Devil, when time comes to collect on the arrangement, and the troupe, which is joined by a mysterious outsider named Tony (originally Ledger), embark on a journey through parallel worlds to rescue the girl. Ledger’s role has been recast with Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell portraying physically changed transformations of Ledger’s character as he travels through different dimensions. Very interesting. It sounds not unlike “Doctor Who”, with an added touch of Peter J. Hammond’s recent “Torchwood” episode “From Out of the Rain”!
I hope Terry Gilliam’s film sees completion. Lily has suggested she finally wants to take up her place to read Social and Political Sciences at King’s College, Cambridge, to which she has already twice deferred entry. Education is important and, being an intelligent girl as well as a beautiful one, it would be wise for her not to miss out on such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It would be nice if she could fulfil both and no doubt this creates a dilemma for her. However, she seems to have already made the decision to put both her modelling and film careers on hold in pursuit of academic excellence. I must say, I don’t blame her. With the news that the go-ahead has just been given for a further instalment of “St. Trinian’s”, it would also be good to see her returning to the part of geeky-but-pretty Polly. I look forward to seeing how it all turns out for Lily.
7 comments:
Embassador, you are spoiling us with Lily's impressive forero roches...
Sweet, like chocolate?!!
Actually, after I wrote that comment I realized that perhaps it wasn't as complimentary a thing to say after all... forero roche are vile things. And I don't think you can really compare Lily's... er... decolletage with vile bits of cheap Euro choc. But I absolutely refuse to go down the Ricky Gervais "milky puddings" route. Honestly.
SPS eh? I did wonder if she was to do a serious tripos... Still, it's not Land Economy.
She's a bit hamster-cheeked for my taste, but I'll let you know if I see her around the place.
Steve, at least you didn't resort to mentioning tasty dumplings!
SK, I presume you live amongst the college spires!
I'm looking forward to seeing Lily... but in the new Terry Gilliam movie, as he's one of the few decent "fantasy" film directors still making genre pictures of any real substance.
Lots of Lily comments but what did you think to "Unicorn and the wasp" Tim? And also what do you reckon to the departure of RTD? Sorry, no relevance whatsoever to this post!!
I enjoyed "The Unicorn and the Wasp", Simon, with the exception of the sequence in which the Doctor tries to cure himself of poisoning. It just seemed out of place. Ironically, I read a review from a Canadian fan who found the episode boring with the exception of this segment! So, I guess it's horses for courses!!
The story was well directed, for the most part, but there were probably a few too many of those wavy screen wipes! And, the namedropping of so many Christie stories made it fairly similar to last year's "Shakespeare Code", in that respect. What did you think of it?
Without the pressure to generate so much material, RTD might yet write a script that's a little more thoughtful than those he's produced whilst also running the series, assuming Moffat commissions him! Russell's two children's serials, of the early Nineties, prove he is capable of writing good television fantasy.
Steven Moffat will want to put his own stamp on the series, though. At least, I hope he does! I don't see the point in producing more of the same, even if the BBC want him to, as, after five years, RTD's formula is pretty much exhausted! I think "Doctor Who" works best as horror, not (pure) science fiction, and definitely not romance, so the new show runner would do better inspired by Robert Holmes than Davies!!
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