Michael Apted ("Amazing Grace," "The World is Not Enough") is set to direct an as-yet-untitled film adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novel "Eight Months on Ghazzah Street." The book deals with the friendship between an Arab woman and an English woman who moves to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Apted has been scouting locations in Jordan for the … [Read more...]
Apted Replaces Hanson On “Mavericks”
November 25, 2011 by
Michael Apted will replace Curtis Hanson as director on the last two weeks of principal photography on the surfing drama "Of Men and Mavericks" at Walden Media says Deadline. However there's no major dispute between the studio and the filmmaker. Rather Hanson recently experienced complications from a heart surgery, which leaves him incapable of … [Read more...]
