King Arthur star Freddie Fox and Trust star Anna Chancellor are two of the A-list actors featured in a feature-length BBC documentary about Oscar Wilde.
The pair will feature in The Importance of Being Oscar alongside Outnumbered’s Claire Skinner and Four Weddings and a Funeral’s James Fleet, which is produced by Banijay-owned indie Iwc.
The 80-minute doc, which will air next year on BBC Two, will explore the Irish writer’s career, controversial personal life and concluding fall from grace. It will chart his success and will be part revelatory accounts, part-performance. The actors will perform excerpts from his greatest works, including The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Canterville Ghost.
Stephen Fry, Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland and his latest biographer Matthew Sturgis will also feature.
The doc has been commissioned by Mark Bell, Commissioning Editor, BBC Arts with Richard Curson Smith directing for Iwc.
The pair will feature in The Importance of Being Oscar alongside Outnumbered’s Claire Skinner and Four Weddings and a Funeral’s James Fleet, which is produced by Banijay-owned indie Iwc.
The 80-minute doc, which will air next year on BBC Two, will explore the Irish writer’s career, controversial personal life and concluding fall from grace. It will chart his success and will be part revelatory accounts, part-performance. The actors will perform excerpts from his greatest works, including The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Canterville Ghost.
Stephen Fry, Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland and his latest biographer Matthew Sturgis will also feature.
The doc has been commissioned by Mark Bell, Commissioning Editor, BBC Arts with Richard Curson Smith directing for Iwc.
- 1/24/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
A new documentary about Oscar Wilde will tell the celebrated writer’s story with a star cast recreating excerpts from his greatest works, including “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” Freddie Fox, Claire Skinner, Anna Chancellor and James Fleet will all perform in the 80-minute show, “The Importance of Being Oscar,” which will be on BBC Two in the U.K.
Stephen Fry, Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland, and his latest biographer, Matthew Sturgis, will also delve into Wilde’s glittering and scandalous career, and his place in the high society of the day. Viewers will join experts, enthusiasts and biographers as they step inside Wilde’s life and career.
Banijay’s U.K. banner, Iwc, is producing. Banijay’s sales arm will take it out internationally.
“The time is really ripe for a re-evaluation of Oscar Wilde’s life and work on television,” said exec producer Franny Moyle.
Stephen Fry, Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland, and his latest biographer, Matthew Sturgis, will also delve into Wilde’s glittering and scandalous career, and his place in the high society of the day. Viewers will join experts, enthusiasts and biographers as they step inside Wilde’s life and career.
Banijay’s U.K. banner, Iwc, is producing. Banijay’s sales arm will take it out internationally.
“The time is really ripe for a re-evaluation of Oscar Wilde’s life and work on television,” said exec producer Franny Moyle.
- 1/24/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
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