Ben Mendelsohn is to star with Daisy Ridley in The Marsh King s Daughter .
The 52-year-old actor has been tapped to appear in the thriller based on Karen Dionne s book of the same name, which is being directed by Neil Burger.
Ben will portray Jacob Holbrook, the infamous Marsh King , who kept his young daughter Helena and her mother captive in the wilderness for years.
After spending a lifetime trying to escape her past, the grown up Helena (Ridley) is forced to face her demons when her father makes an unexpected return.
Elle Smith and Mark L. Smith have adapted the screenplay with the latter also producing with Black Bear Pictures Teddy Schwarzman and Keith Redmon for Anonymous Content. Michael Heimler, Cliff Roberts and Charles Miller are executive producing the project.
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Review: The Armed Man - an ambitious project for Whanganui
3 May, 2021 04:00 PM
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Whanganui choirs and Brass Whanganui rehearsing for the Anzac Day concert. Photo / File
Wanganui Midweek
Review:
I would never have believed that when I moved back to New Zealand I would be sitting in a concert of The Armed Man by the Welsh composer Karl Jenkins in my home town of Whanganui.
Just like the remarkable fact of seeing Bill Bailey here just a few weeks back, this place continues to punch well above its size. Unlike the latter, this concert was a case of local talent and ambition wonderfully on display and how appropriate that this was arranged to be part of the Anzac Day commemorations.
Over the years I wish I had kept discarded film props and scripts on my visits to various film studios as they can be very valuable today. I did buy the begging bowl from the 1960s film
Oliver when I attended an auction of film items at Shepperton in the 1970s but walked past discarded
Star Wars stuff around the same period. I note that one of several axes made for
The Shining is up for sale at £75,000 and I will be interested to see what the personal script of
The Empire Strikes Back, owned by my old friend the late Dave Prowse, sells for at auction shortly. Dave made an excellent living for decades appearing at