Renee Zellweger is set to star as Beatrix Potter in the biopic Miss Potter... ... Ewan McGregor is in talks to play her publisher/love interest, Norman. Chris Noonan, who hasn't been at the helm of a film since 1995's Babe, will direct from a screenplay by Richard Maltby Jr.
Films/TV: September 2005 Archives
An Outsider, Out of the Shadows - New York Times
New York Times interview with S. E. Hinton:
It's as if Ms. Hinton's image, of a teenage girl who is somehow an authority on teenage life, has been caught in a time warp. But in reality, she's now a sturdy homemaker, either 54 or 56, though she won't give her exact age. She speaks in a gritty Oklahoman accent, and has lived almost all her life in Tulsa, where she is married to David Inhofe, a software engineer....
Wichita Eagle | 09/05/2005 | 'Speak' stays close to young-adult novel
Made for 1 percent of the cost of HBO's $100 million "Rome" epic, a little movie televised simultaneously today on Showtime and Lifetime demonstrates that art trumps money every time. It is "Speak," adapted from Laurie Halse Anderson's novel about a high school freshman who turns nearly mute after she's raped at an end-of-summer party. Despite spare dialogue, it shimmers with emotion and finds moments of humor as well. And it features a young woman who could be a big-time movie star, if she wants the job...
