Ridley Scott preps Gertrude Bell biopic
Ridley Scott plans to produce this project with Giannina Facio through his Scott Free production house. The duo hopes to lock in a strong and powerful actress to play the complicated Gertrude Bell, who thrived during a tumultuous time period not kind to women.
Gertrude Bell was a well-to-do student from England who attended Oxford University before finding her calling in the desert, where she became a seminal figure in Middle Eastern politics before the start of World War I. She helped sort out the borders of Iraq after the fall of the Turkish Empire, and was rejected by her own government for advocating Arab self-rule.
Ridley Scott is also currently prepping a biopic on the Gucci family dynasty while he shoots Prometheus. It isn't known which of these two biopics will shoot first.
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steandric
With Werner Herzog and the talented Naomi Watts, it will be an Epic.
With Scott, and whoever it'll be as Bell, it can only be a good entertaining film at best.
Period.
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skywise
although Scott has his ups and downs there is always a certain quality to his movies that make them all worth watching.
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Worth5Bucks
Im glad hes done with Prometheus though
1 year agoby @mattbierwagenFlag
Worth5Bucks
thumb up
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RojoDiablo
Not sure about this, surely Ridley has other projects he can focus on other than a film about Bell & Gucci.
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Bawnian©-Dexeus
Biopics are gonna be booming
1 year agoby @bawnian-dexeusFlag
thedude-abides
Sounds right down Scott's alley.
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