Colin Firth Set for Dorian Gray

Colin Firth is set to star opposite Ben Barnes in Dorian Gray, director Oliver Parker's retelling of the Oscar Wilde classic.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is based on "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a book centering on a young man named Gray (Barnes) who becomes the subject of a painting. As the man descends into a hedonistic lifestyle, the portrait begins to age and morph, but he doesn't.

Firth will play Lord Henry Wotton, the aristocrat who corrupts Gray with his worldview. (He is sometimes called Harry in the novel.)

The movie began shooting this week.


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  1. T.Clark

    The vampire girl? Yeah, she's in the comic. I haven't read it, but i get all the info from Wizard, a magazine of comics and entertainment

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  2. Vamp

    Really? I shoulda known they have practically the same premise, you know, team of superpowered people, lots of superpowered people at that. Was Mina in the comics? She's my favorite character in that movie.

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  3. T.Clark

    Yeah, the comic's from the same writer of watchmen ha

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  4. Vamp

    The film's based on a comic? Thanks for ruining it's originality for me. LOL!

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  5. T.Clark

    I wasn't dissing townsend, vamp. His performance was good...it's just his character has never appeared in the comic the film's based on

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  6. Vamp

    HEY! Stuart Townsend was an AWESOME Dorian Grey..... Just like he was an AWESOME Lestat! Don't diss Townsend.....

    On a side note, this oughtta be good. :|

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  7. ed_wood

    It's such a good story that it should make a good movie. Well, I hope at least. I didn't like Stuart Townsend as Dorian in Extraordinary Gentlemen, but the movie was ok.

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  8. T.Clark

    This was the new character in league of extraordinary gentlemen...they f*cked that movie up til they had enough dna to film 3 episodes of csi

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