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November 21, 2001

- Harry Potter star a fan of Joe's

In an article from 15 November, 2001, Daniel Radcliffe, the boy who plays the boy wizard declares that he hopes to continue his career as an actor and puts Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes amongst those he'd like to emulate.

November 20, 2001

- Joe will be on gala for Judi Dench

Dame Judi awarded Bafta fellowship Guardian Unlimited Tuesday November 20, 2001

Judi Dench is to be honoured with one of the highest accolades a British actor can receive when she is awarded the Bafta fellowship next month.

Dench, whose film career has spanned nearly four decades, will receive the award on December 9, her 67th birthday, at a star studded gala evening to be attended by the great and good of the British film industry.

Stephen Fry will host the tribute evening and guests will include Pierce Brosnan, Dame Maggie Smith, Sir John Mills, Joseph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent and Rupert Everett.

November 19, 2001

- Joe as Timothy McVeigh in BBC radio play on 9th December!

9th December 7.35pm
Play 3 - Everyone For Themselves
In this play, Fletcher sets out to demonstrate how, in our society now, language is used by the wealthy and powerful, with devastating effects, to hem in and smother original thought and action. In a purely materialist society where life is the only imperative, people are no longer prepared to die for democracy. Instead we fight wars using huge technological armadas against peasant populations who still have spiritual values, are prepared to die, but are armed only with Kalashnikovs.This, Fletcher argues, is the future division of the world. The play is based on two true incidents. The former existence of a 'debating society' at the United States maximum security prison at Florence, Colorado, consisting of Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma Bomber, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, Ramzi Yousef, the first bomber of the World Trade Centre, and Luis Felipe, America's leading gangster; and the existence at Rostov-on-Don of a Red Army laboratory where the Army attempts to identify the remains of soldiers killed in recent battles and return them to their relatives. Joseph Fiennes stars as Timothy McVeigh with Lorraine Ashbourne, John Guerrasio and Stuart Milligan among the cast.

You might be able to listen to it here

- The IMDB reports that the Killing Me Softly United Kingdom Release date will be April 5.

November 18, 2001

- Yet another possible role for Joe (will he find time to breathe inbetween?)

Full story: Ananova.com:
A film based on Brian Keenan's book An Evil Cradling has been delayed. Joseph Fiennes is to star as Keenan in "Blind Flight". But the British production has been postponed in the wake of the US terror attacks. The movie industry has been shying away from sensitive subjects since the attacks. Producer Sally Hibbin told The Observer: "We had hoped to start shooting at the beginning of next year. "Then September 11 came along and the world didn't want to talk about this film. "So we're not going into production in January as originally planned." Keenan wrote An Evil Cradling about the four years he spent in captivity in Beirut with John McCarthy. "Blind Flight" is scheduled to be filmed in Ireland and the Middle East.

- More about Blind Flight from Guardian Unlimited:

Keenan film latest victim of terror war
By York Membery
The Observer
Sunday November 18, 2001

He called it An Evil Cradling. The moving story of Brian Keenan's captivity in Beirut, where he spend four years locked up with the British TV journalist John McCarthy, became an international bestseller, but a new film based on the Irishman's experience has been postponed in the wake of the terror attacks on New York and Washington .

Production of the £2.5 million movie, which was to star Joseph Fiennes as Keenan with Ian Hart as McCarthy, has been put on hold indefinitely as executives shy away from controversial subjects.

Blind Flight was due to be made by London-based Parallax Pictures and shot in Ireland and the Middle East. Now, vital finance for the project has been withdrawn by backers nervous about a backlash from cinema-goers while the war on terrorism continues. Keenan was said this weekend to be 'disappointed but understanding'.

Producer Sally Hibbin said: 'We had hoped to start shooting at the beginning of next year. Then 11 September came along and the world didn't want to talk about this film. So we're not going into production in January as originally planned.'

Keenan wrote An Evil Cradling after being freed from captivity in 1989, four years after being seized by fundamentalist Shia militiamen. He vividly described the fear, agony and isolation of being held hostage, but his memoir was also darkly humorous and reflective.

Blind Flight is not the first British movie to fall victim to the fallout caused by the war on terrorism. A number of Hollywood scouting parties have already cancelled visits to the UK, according to film industry sources. This has put back the start date of some projects by weeks and months and put a question mark over the fate of others.

November 15, 2001

- Chicago Sun Times, November 12:

Joseph Fiennes and Christopher Lambert will play two angels who fight to determine the future of humanity in "Good Omens," a film dreamed up by Terry Gilliam of "Monty Python" fame.

November 9, 2001

- From Variety.com comes a rumour about a TV movie:

Inside Move: Rx for a remake
Kirch, Granada prep TV's 'Doctor Zhivago'
By CHRISTIAN KOHL

It's a revolutionary idea: U.K. producer Granada and German producer Kirch are planning a TV movie remake of "Doctor Zhivago," the 1965 David Lean romantic epic set against the Russian Revolution. The two-part telepic, expected to start shooting in Prague in February, will focus on the love-hate relationship of Lara and Kamarovsky "and shed more light on things left unsaid in the original film and the book," says a Kirch spokesman. The project was initiated by Granada and is based on a screenplay by Andrew Smith. Terms of the co-production are not yet finalized, and the eventual financial framework will factor into the choice of actors. Jeremy Irons is being eyed for the Kamarovsky role tackled by Rod Steiger in the 1965 pic, and Joseph Fiennes is being mulled as successor to Omar Sharif for the role of Yuri Zhivago.

November 8, 2001

- From Ananova.com comes word about another possible movie role:

Terry Gilliam is planning to make a film about a battle between two angels over the future of mankind. He hopes to start production on "Good Omens" in the spring in Berlin. Joseph Fiennes, Christopher Lambert and Jennifer Connolly are being tipped to star in the film.

Take a look at the Upcoming Movies: Good Omens site

By Nick Nunziata:
Joseph Fiennes and Elisabeth Shue are finalizing deals to star in "Leopold Bloom", while Sam Shepard is circling a role in the indie drama as well. The indie film, which is comprised of two stories that become connected seems like the kind of thing that'd play in a handful of art theaters across the country but any excuse to post pictures like these, I take! Directed by Mehdi Norowzian, the film will start shooting next year once Shepard finishes work on Another Thunderheart, Fiennes rehearses for Shakespeare in Love vs. Demonic Toys, and Shue loops her dialogue for The Revenge of Soapdish.

November 6, 2001

- From Anderson Jone's Movie Scoop column of 11/2:

Naked Mountain Climbing, Feel the Burn: "Personally," says Heather Graham, "I'd rather watch people having sex than people being really violent." Um, we agree. And we'd rather watch Heather Graham having sex with Joseph Fiennes than pretty much anything else. She's a repressed research scientist. He's a British mountain climber. Together, they're a pair of disturbingly obsessive lovers in their upcoming film, an adaptation of the erotic thriller Killing Me Softly. "It's about sexuality and passion and going over the edge--and then sort of being afraid of where you got yourself," says Graham.

Early reports say the couple spends lots of time nearly naked in extensive celluloid-melting sex scenes, including hints of lesbianism. Graham says she has screened the film, enjoyed it and appreciates the alterations from the book that director Kaige Chen made. "It's less like, Is this guy evil? Is he going to get you?" she says. "It's more like a mysterious love story. He made it a lot more romantic. It's, like, this love story about love where it really burns hard, then everything deteriorates."

Joseph Fiennes, Elizabeth Shue and Sam Shepard are in talks to star in the independent feature "Leopold Bloom". The film which is set in the American south, marks the directorial debut of Mehdi Norowzian, who was Oscar nominated last year for his short film Killing Joe. "Leopold Bloom" will have two separate stories that end up converging. Shue will play an unfaithful mother who suspects her husband is having an affair and denies her son, a product of her own infidelity, warmth and love. Fiennes will play a brilliant writer who is released after 15 years in prison, reports www.variety.com. Rather than being about James Joyce's famous literary creation the story centres on the efforts of three adults to save a little boy from tradgedy. Shooting on the film is scheduled to begin early next year.

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