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Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones) is getting good reviews for her feature film debut, a spooky thriller called Another Me. Written and directed by Isabel Coixet (The Secret Life of Words), it was well received at the Rome Film Festival and will go on general release early next year. Turner plays a troubled student who is haunted by a secret past and imagines she has a double, causing her family and friends to think she is having a breakdown. Rhys Ifans and Claire Forlani play her parents and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors) is a drama teacher who can’t keep his hands to himself. Previously known as Panda Eyes, the film was shot in Wales.
• Episodes’ star Tamsin Greig is the latest actor to join the top-notch cast of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’s sequel. She will play a mysterious woman who checks into the hotel. Richard Gere is also in talks to appear, although he hasn’t yet been signed. Shooting in the UK gets under way this month, then the stars and crew head to India in January for three months. The returning cast of Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie and Ronald Pickup have all said they rebooked because of the fun they had filming the original and the strength of the new screenplay, which has again been written by Ol Parker. John Madden is back as director.
• Colin Firth and Kate Winslet are in early discussions to star in a film based on infamous British round-the-world yachtie Donald Crowhurst. He set sail in the Sunday Times Golden Globe race in 1968 and was expected home the following year. However, he was an ill-equipped amateur sailor with a slow trimaran and he ran into difficulties early on. He secretly abandoned the race, started reporting false positions via his Marconi radio and duped his family, race organisers and the public into believing he had spent 240 days circumnavigating the globe in a single-handed, non-stop odyssey. The British public, still enraptured by Francis Chichester’s efforts the previous year, initially lapped up Crowhurst’s tale, which ended in his disappearance and presumed suicide. Winslet would play Crowhurst’s wife, Clare, who was dubbed the “sea widow” at the time. The mother of four was forced to go on the dole because her house and Crowhurst’s business were financially tied up in the ill-fated voyage. If Firth and Winslet do get on board, shooting will start late 2014 or early 2015, well after the actress gives birth to her third child.
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