Charles Dance on Fanny Lye Deliver'd, London Film Festival at premiere interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFtNvPOd42o
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A pair of druggy, licentious agitators invade a 17th-century Shropshire homestead in this eerie period melodrama from Brit indie director Thomas Clay
It is 1657, during Oliver Cromwell’s reign, and Maxine Peake plays Fanny Lye, a hardworking farmer’s wife somewhere in Shropshire where woodsmoke and the bleat of barnyard animals drift in the wind. She has learned to suppress her natural intelligence and inquiring mind through marriage to brutal Puritan ex-soldier John Lye, gloweringly and effectively played by Charles Dance. To impose his patriarchal discipline, Lye thinks nothing of taking the stick to their young son, Arthur (Zak Adams) or to Fanny herself.
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It is an arresting film, although a bit programmatic, with narrative turns that can broadly be predicted. Yet the lead performance by Peake holds it together: fierce, strong, intelligent – a convincing depiction of someone who will learn from what she will survive
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/10/fanny-lye-deliverd-review-maxine-peake-thomas-clay
Jetpack Distribution has snagged the rights to “Master Moley” and will sell the animated series internationally. There is both a one-off “Master Moley” special and an accompanying series.
The special has a standout voice cast including Warwick Davis (“Harry Potter”), who will also executive produce. Signature Entertainment is selling the special and handling U.K. distribution, while Jetpack is handling the 52-part 11-minute series.
Other stars lending their voices to the special include Julie Walters (“Mamma Mia!”), Gemma Arterton (“Their Finest”), Richard E. Grant (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”), Togo Igawa (“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again”) and Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”).
https://variety.com/2019/tv/global/warwick-davis-master-moley-julie-walters-signature-entertainment-jetpack-distribution-
Charles Dance on Fanny Lye Deliver'd, Maxine Peake, London Film Festival at premiere interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFtNvPOd42o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFtNvPOd42o
David Fincher is rounding out the cast for his upcoming Netflix feature, Mank, about the tumultuous development of Orson Welles’ classics Citizen Kane.
Joining previously announced Oscar winner Gary Oldman is Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tuppence Middleton, Arliss Howard (The Time Traveler’s Wife), Charles Dance (Game Of Thrones), Ferdinand Kingsley (Dracula Untold), Jamie McShane (Gone Girl), Joseph Cross (Milk), Sam Troughton (Chernobyl), Toby Leonard Moore (Billions), Tom Burke (The Souvenir) and Tom Pelphrey (Iron Fist).
The project is a longtime-in-the-making for the two-time Oscar-nominated director, who will shoot the film in black and white with production starting next month.
John Lye
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“Thomas has a unique way of working. I’ve worked on all sorts of things, and you start work on a film and become aware of what the rules of the game are. And this was a game that I had never played. Thomas has an extraordinary vision, and it was a wonderful script. There were a lot of challenges, and challenges that I think could have been foreseen. The thing visually, as you can see, looks astonishing. But the decision to make a film in March in England and shoot it in natural light is either very brave or misguided. The jury’s out on that.”
But Dance also told The Telegraph:
“Maxine Peake, Freddie Fox and I shot it in freezing weather in March two years ago, and even though we all went through hell making it, I have a feeling it’s going to be rather good.” Of his role, he was intrigued because it was something different: “The part was very interesting — I’m not wearing a uniform and poncing about pretending to be aristocratic.” He explained why he agreed to this film: “There is always the chance that you’re going to be offered a more-or-less carbon copy of something you’ve just done because if you’re seen to be doing something reasonably well, the chances are you’ll be asked to do it again. But if there’s sufficient money in the bank, then I will say, ‘No, I’m not going to do that again’. I’ll wait until something else comes along.”
And at the London Film Festival, Dance gave more insight:
“We worked very long hours. up to our knees in mud a lot of the time. with possibly the worst catering I’ve ever had. And a crew who worked their asses off for minimal fees a lot of the time. But that aspect of the whole thing is not unique because more and more films are being made with tighter schedules and smaller budgets and people tend to work miracles. And I think this crew and this writer and director and these actors have worked a bit of a miracle. I think this is an extraordinary film, and I’m very glad about it.”
