Nicolas Cage has played a serial killer, a psycho dad, and even himself, but transforming into John Madden may be his grandest task. Deadline broke the news that filmmaker David O. Russell has tapped Cage to play the iconic Super Bowl-winning Oakland Raiders head coach. The drama film, simply titled Madden, will come from Amazon […]
Will Ferrell in talks to play John Madden in new biopic
Will Ferrell is heading to the football field as Deadline has revealed that Will Ferrell is in talks to join Amazon/MGM’s Madden. The controversial five-time Oscar nominee David O. Russell will helm the project, based on a Black List script by Cambron Clark with rewrites from Russell. The story will follow the story of football […]
Movie Review – Operation Mincemeat (2022)
Operation Mincemeat, 2022. Directed by John Madden. Starring Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, Johnny Flynn, Jason Isaacs, Mark Gatiss, Hattie Morahan, Paul Ritter, Simon Russell Beale, Lorne MacFadyen, Markus von Lingen, Ruby Bentall, Alex Jennings, Ellie Haddington, Nicholas Rowe, Will Keen, Mark Bonnar, James Fleet, Alexander Beyer, Nico Birnbaum, Pep Tosar, Alba […]
Colin Firth to star in World War II drama Operation Mincemeat
Straight out of the Cannes Film Festival, it has been announced that Colin Firth (Kingsman: The Golden Circle) will star in Operation Mincemeat, a World War II drama from director John Madden (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). The film is based on the true story of one of the war’s most successful and inventive espionage operations […]
Exclusive Interview – Director John Madden on Miss Sloane, feminist filmmaking and more
Alex Moreland chats with director John Madden about his latest film, Miss Sloane (slight spoilers throughout)… So, let’s talk about Miss Sloane. It’s a very dialogue heavy movie, which is in turn realised by the performances – where do you see your directorial voice shine through? Well, it’s an interesting challenge to film, because it’s […]
Exclusive Interview: Director John Madden on Miss Sloane
Freda Cooper chats with Miss Sloane director John Madden… Elizabeth Sloane lives and breathes politics. Miss Sloane the film seems to attract them like a magnet. It premiered in America just after the Presidential Election and arrives in the UK this week in the middle of our own General Election campaign. The film’s director, John Madden, spoke […]
Movie Review – Miss Sloane (2016)
Miss Sloane, 2016. Directed by John Madden. Starring Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, John Lithgow, Jake Lacy and Sam Waterston. SYNOPSIS: Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain) is the most in-demand political lobbyist in Washington DC. Famous for her ruthless cunning, she’s poached from a large agency by a smaller one, headed Rodolfo Schmidt (Mark Strong) to […]
Jessica Chastain to star in John Madden-directed Miss Sloane
Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year) is set to star in political thriller Miss Sloane for Europacorp and FilmNation, Deadline reports. John Madden (Shakespeare In Love) is directing the film, which will see Chastain playing “a powerful lobbyist who sacrifices her career on Federal Hill in order to successfully pass an amendment enforcing […]
