Tuesday, November 26, 2013

The New Queen

Long-gestating Queen of the Desert, the Werner Herzog-penned forthcoming biopic of English writer and explorer Gertrude Bell, is finally cooking with gas.

But sans Naomi Watts.

The actress had said yes to the film like, two summers ago, right, but it seems that she dropped out at some point earlier this fall because her BFF Nicole Kidman is now set to play Bell.

Meanwhile, Damian Lewis (Showtime’s Homeland) also has joined scored a part in the project, that of an unhappily married English war hero who embarks on an affair with Kidman’s titular lady.

Btw, Robert Pattinson is still set to play T.E. Lawrence, a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia.

Production on Queen of the Desert is scheduled to start next month.

And then Kidman’s gonna get to work on Strangerland, a drama co-starring Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving, about a couple whose two teenaged children go missing in the Australian desert.

Photo: WhatTalking.com.

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