After finally watching Sherlock I’m ready to see anything with a role for Benedict Cumberbatch. Luckily there are already a few on the way: The Whistleblower; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; and eventually the second Sherlock season and The Hobbit.
Add one more to the list, as HBO has just given the green light to Parade’s End, a WWI-set drama that will star both the modern Sherlock and Rebecca Hall. And it has a Tom Stoppard script! Read More »
One of the interesting little sidebar points to this story is that it comes from Showbiz 411. Launched just last week, this is the site owned and run by Roger Friedman who, you might remember, is the Fox journalist pushed out for downloading and reviewing the Wolverine workprint. As far as I can tell, Showbiz 411 offers just about the same kind of material but now Friedman is accountable only to himself.
Friedman’s report tells us that the script for Ridley Scott‘s Robin Hood is being rewritten once again, this time by the incredible Tom Stoppard. If you aren’t familiar with Stoppard’s work as the consummate playwright (examples: The Coast of Utopia, The Real Inspector Hound, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) then you may well know him from his screenwriting (examples: Enigma, Brazil, Shakespeare in Love).
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