I know a lot about certain things. Transport, development. But sod all about everything else. Including, obviously, real life.
Bill will read Dracula!
Loading ...Bill Nighy plays the lead in Saturday
There is no better way to begin your day than open up the news paper reading an article with those words in the same sentence:
“Bill Nighy” and “lead role”.
The Guardian has an article about producer Scott Rudin, who mentions to be producing Saturday, which is a film based on a novel by the same name written by Ian McEwan (Atonement). According to the article Bill Nighy will play the lead role of Henry Perowne.
Reading the synopsis of Saturday (the book), this is a very interesting story indeed, and it’s perfectly casted.
Saturday is a novel set within a single day — 15 February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and enjoying good relations with his children, who are young adults. What troubles him is the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne makes his way to his usual squash game with his anaesthetist, trying to avoid the hundreds of thousand of marchers filling the streets of London, protesting against the war. A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug called Baxter. To Perowne’s professional eye, something appears to be profoundly wrong with this young man. Baxter, in his turn, believes the surgeon has humiliated him, and visits the opulent Perowne home that evening, during a family reunion - with savage consequences that will lead Henry Perowne to deploy all his skills to keep this doomed figure alive.
More about the book:
The Times reviews Saturday
Saturday @ Ian McEwan.com
This will be the second time Bill stars in a film made based on a Ian McEwan novel, the first one was Enduring Love.
More information as it comes available, but the future seems Nighy.
Bill should start working on his Oscar speech right now! :) :) :)
Well let’s assume this film is really going to happen (sure seems like it!) - this is really a very interesting role.
So my best guess, in 2010 (2009 if we are lucky) we’ll hear it:
And the Oscar goes to … :-)
(I don’t dare to write it, it might be bad luck)
This is great and very interesting news, indeed! The character of Henry Perowne seems to be a perfect role for Bill. I’m really looking forward to this. And there’s another good thing: Bill’s working schedule will finally take him back home.
True, 2 UK shot films in the pipe line, it is great indeed.