Exclusive: Homeland and Death of Stalin actor Rupert Friend is set to star alongside Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch in James and Lucia, a biopic of celebrated author James Joyce which will focus on the Irish writer’s relationship with his daughter.
Written and to be directed by Robert Mullan (Mad to be Normal), Motus Studios is presenting the movie to buyers this week at the EFM in Berlin.
Based on the the final decade of Joyce’s life, firstly in Paris then in Zurich, the film highlights his struggles with his fading eyesight and, centrally, his attempts to protect his beloved daughter Lucia. Once treated by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, Joyce was diagnosed as schizophrenic in the mid-1930s and institutionalized in Switzerland and in the UK.
Joyce, a towering figure in 20th Century literature, is known for works including Ulysses, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man,...
Written and to be directed by Robert Mullan (Mad to be Normal), Motus Studios is presenting the movie to buyers this week at the EFM in Berlin.
Based on the the final decade of Joyce’s life, firstly in Paris then in Zurich, the film highlights his struggles with his fading eyesight and, centrally, his attempts to protect his beloved daughter Lucia. Once treated by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, Joyce was diagnosed as schizophrenic in the mid-1930s and institutionalized in Switzerland and in the UK.
Joyce, a towering figure in 20th Century literature, is known for works including Ulysses, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man,...
- 2/15/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Film to chronicle the last years of Irish writer Joyce’s life.
Michael Gambon has boarded the cast of James & Lucia, Robert Mullan’s drama about the final years of Irish writer James Joyce.
Aiden Gillen (Game Of Thrones) was previously announced to play Joyce back in 2017 and is still attached as the project aims for production in November 2019.
The film is a co-production between Ireland, Belgium and the Us. Producers are director Mullan through his Sisyphus Films, with Michael Garland for Grand Pictures, Morris Ruskin, Mark Andrews of MugShot Films, and UMedia.
The story tells of the final years...
Michael Gambon has boarded the cast of James & Lucia, Robert Mullan’s drama about the final years of Irish writer James Joyce.
Aiden Gillen (Game Of Thrones) was previously announced to play Joyce back in 2017 and is still attached as the project aims for production in November 2019.
The film is a co-production between Ireland, Belgium and the Us. Producers are director Mullan through his Sisyphus Films, with Michael Garland for Grand Pictures, Morris Ruskin, Mark Andrews of MugShot Films, and UMedia.
The story tells of the final years...
- 4/8/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Italian horror ‘Blood Bags’ is among the new titles.
UK genre specialists Devilworks have announced five market premieres ahead of the American Film Market.
Titles include Ryan Simons’ supernatural horror Demon Eye, produced by Quickfoot Films. The UK film centres a young woman who returns to her father’s country house in the Moors following his mysterious death, and finds a cursed amulet. Darren Day and Ellie Goffe star.
Also on the slate is Italian horror Blood Bags, directed by Emiliano Ranzani and starring Makenna Guyler. Ranzani and Davide Mela co-wrote the film, which takes in two friends who break in to an abandoned mansion,...
UK genre specialists Devilworks have announced five market premieres ahead of the American Film Market.
Titles include Ryan Simons’ supernatural horror Demon Eye, produced by Quickfoot Films. The UK film centres a young woman who returns to her father’s country house in the Moors following his mysterious death, and finds a cursed amulet. Darren Day and Ellie Goffe star.
Also on the slate is Italian horror Blood Bags, directed by Emiliano Ranzani and starring Makenna Guyler. Ranzani and Davide Mela co-wrote the film, which takes in two friends who break in to an abandoned mansion,...
- 10/5/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Film comes from UK outfit Bad Penny Productions.
UK production outfit Bad Penny Productions has released a first look at director Robert Mullan’s latest feature, This Weekend Will Change Your Life.
Source: Paul Stephenson
This Weekend Will Change Your Life
Production has now wrapped on the film, which stars David Bamber (Valkyrie) and Adam Paul Harvey (Son Of Rambow). It marks director Mullan’s follow up to the David Tennant and Elizabeth Moss-starring Mad To Be Normal, which premiered at last year’s Glasgow Film Festival.
The story follows seven people who leave London for a therapeutic weekend in the Cotswolds, which they are told will change their lives.
The project is being produced by Bad Penny Production’s Phin Glynn and Daz Spencer Lovesey, Norman Merry is executive producer.
Next up for Mullan is James And Lucia, starring Aidan Gillen as iconic Irish writer James Joyce. Bad Penny’s upcoming projects include an adaptation of [link=nm...
UK production outfit Bad Penny Productions has released a first look at director Robert Mullan’s latest feature, This Weekend Will Change Your Life.
Source: Paul Stephenson
This Weekend Will Change Your Life
Production has now wrapped on the film, which stars David Bamber (Valkyrie) and Adam Paul Harvey (Son Of Rambow). It marks director Mullan’s follow up to the David Tennant and Elizabeth Moss-starring Mad To Be Normal, which premiered at last year’s Glasgow Film Festival.
The story follows seven people who leave London for a therapeutic weekend in the Cotswolds, which they are told will change their lives.
The project is being produced by Bad Penny Production’s Phin Glynn and Daz Spencer Lovesey, Norman Merry is executive producer.
Next up for Mullan is James And Lucia, starring Aidan Gillen as iconic Irish writer James Joyce. Bad Penny’s upcoming projects include an adaptation of [link=nm...
- 1/26/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
[Pictured above: a promo image of The Last Movie Star, with Burt Reynolds and Ariel Winter.] The Oxford Film Festival in Oxford, Mississippi has revealed the film schedule for its 15th edition today. The line up includes Adam Rifkin's latest, The Last Movie Star, which features Burt Reynolds as an aging star who faces the reality that his glory days are behind him. The film also stars Ariel Winter and Chevy Chase. Mad To Be Normal is the closing night film, directed by Robert Mullan. Starring David Tennent, Elisabeth Moss, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Gambon, this film is about a renegade psychiatrist in the 1960s who courts controversy and fosters a unique environment for his patients. Directed by Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Allure is about an abused woman plagued...
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- 1/8/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired the U.S. rights to the drama “Mad to Be Normal,” starring Elisabeth Moss and David Tennant, the company announced Tuesday. Directed by Robert Mullan, the film also stars Michael Gambon, Gabriel Byrne, David Bamber and Olivia Poulet. Tennant (“Doctor Who”) stars as 1960’s celebrity psychiatrist R.D. Laing who revolutionized the treatment of people who were diagnosed as “mad.” Working out of Kingsley Hall in East London, he performed experiments on people, including experiments with LSD and practicing a form of self-healing known as metanoia. His methods were controversial. Also Read: Elisabeth Moss to Star in Women's-Rights Drama.
- 9/19/2017
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Mad to Be Normal, the biopic about 1960s celebrity psychologist R.D. Laing that stars David Tennant and newly minted Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss, has been acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films. The pic written and directed by Robert Mullan had its world premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival in February, and a winter 2018 theatrical release is being eyed. The Scotland-born Laing rose to fame for his treatment of people diagnosed as “mad,” performing various daring experiments on…...
- 9/19/2017
- Deadline
With his time as Littlefinger now at an end, “Game of Thrones” star Aidan Gillen will next appear as famed Irish novelist James Joyce in the upcoming biopic “James and Lucia,” which will begin filming early next year. Written and directed by Robert Mullan, the film will follow the final years of Joyce’s life in the late 1930s as he writes his famed novel, “Finnegan’s Wake.” As his health declines, so does that of his daughter, Lucia, a schizophrenic whose mental health worsened after a failed relationship with the famed playwright Samuel Beckett. As he finishes his novel,...
- 8/29/2017
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Aidan Gillen, whose seven-season run on HBO’s epic drama Game Of Thrones hit its apex during Sunday’s equally epic season finale, has been set to play James Joyce in Robert Mullan’s new film James And Lucia. Gillen played the scheming yet somehow likable Lord Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish on GoT, and without giving too much away his character was a key plot point in Sunday’s Season 7 finale that was the series’ most-watched episode ever. The movie, written and…...
- 8/29/2017
- Deadline
Other winners include Michael Inside, The Drummer And The Keeper and Rocky Ros Muc.
The 29th Galway Film Fleadh handed out its annual awards last night (July 16) and named Robert Mullan’s Mad To Be Normal as best international feature.
The 1960s-set film stars David Tennant as real-life hippy psychiatrist Rd Laing and co-stars Elisabeth Moss as his girlfriend Angie Wood.
The awards ceremony took place after the Irish Premiere of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk.
The prize for best Irish feature went to Frank Berry’s Michael Inside, the story of a young Dubliner (played by Dafhyd Flynn) whose life disintegrates when he is sent to prison.
Nick Kelly’s The Drummer And The Keeper, about an unlikely friendship between the bipolar drummer of a rock band and an teen suffering from Asperger’s syndrome, won best first Irish feature.
Rocky Ros Muc, directed by Michael Fanning and telling the story of boxer Sean Mannion, won the best...
The 29th Galway Film Fleadh handed out its annual awards last night (July 16) and named Robert Mullan’s Mad To Be Normal as best international feature.
The 1960s-set film stars David Tennant as real-life hippy psychiatrist Rd Laing and co-stars Elisabeth Moss as his girlfriend Angie Wood.
The awards ceremony took place after the Irish Premiere of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk.
The prize for best Irish feature went to Frank Berry’s Michael Inside, the story of a young Dubliner (played by Dafhyd Flynn) whose life disintegrates when he is sent to prison.
Nick Kelly’s The Drummer And The Keeper, about an unlikely friendship between the bipolar drummer of a rock band and an teen suffering from Asperger’s syndrome, won best first Irish feature.
Rocky Ros Muc, directed by Michael Fanning and telling the story of boxer Sean Mannion, won the best...
- 7/17/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
No reason has been given for the change in opening film.
Danish director Bille August’s The Chinese Widow will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff, June 17-26), replacing Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come, which was previously announced as the opening film.
However, Our Time Will Come will still play in the Golden Goblet competition at Siff. No reason was given for the change by either the festival or the film’s producer Bona Film Group.
Both films are set in China during the Second World War. Starring Emile Hirsch and Yu Nan, The Chinese Widow tells the story of an American pilot who is shot down and saved by Chinese villagers. It remains unclear if the film has been made under the recently signed Danish-Chinese co-production treaty. August recently served as jury president at the Beijing International Film Festival.
Our Time Will Come, which stars Zhou Xun and Eddie Peng, revolves...
Danish director Bille August’s The Chinese Widow will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff, June 17-26), replacing Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come, which was previously announced as the opening film.
However, Our Time Will Come will still play in the Golden Goblet competition at Siff. No reason was given for the change by either the festival or the film’s producer Bona Film Group.
Both films are set in China during the Second World War. Starring Emile Hirsch and Yu Nan, The Chinese Widow tells the story of an American pilot who is shot down and saved by Chinese villagers. It remains unclear if the film has been made under the recently signed Danish-Chinese co-production treaty. August recently served as jury president at the Beijing International Film Festival.
Our Time Will Come, which stars Zhou Xun and Eddie Peng, revolves...
- 6/12/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Historical drama is one of eight titles announced for Siff’s Golden Goblets competition.
Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff, June 17-26), which is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2017.
The historical drama, starring Eddie Peng and Zhou Xun, will also compete in the festival’s main competition section, the Golden Goblet Awards.
At a Cannes reception yesterday (May 18), Siff also announced seven other competition titles: Yasuo Furuhat’s Reminiscence (Japan), Dave McCary’s Brigsby Bear (Us), Cătălin Saizescu’s Fault Condition (Romania), Maciej Pieprzyca’s I’m A Killer (Poland), Ivan Bolotnikov’s Kharms (Russia), Robert Mullan’s Mad To Be Normal (UK) and Markus Goller’s My Brother Simple (Germany).
As previously announced, Romanian director Christian Mungiu will head the Golden Goblet Awards jury, which also includes Chinese director Cao Baoping, Chinese screenwriter Li Qiang, Us/Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski, Japanese director...
Ann Hui’s Our Time Will Come will open this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff, June 17-26), which is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2017.
The historical drama, starring Eddie Peng and Zhou Xun, will also compete in the festival’s main competition section, the Golden Goblet Awards.
At a Cannes reception yesterday (May 18), Siff also announced seven other competition titles: Yasuo Furuhat’s Reminiscence (Japan), Dave McCary’s Brigsby Bear (Us), Cătălin Saizescu’s Fault Condition (Romania), Maciej Pieprzyca’s I’m A Killer (Poland), Ivan Bolotnikov’s Kharms (Russia), Robert Mullan’s Mad To Be Normal (UK) and Markus Goller’s My Brother Simple (Germany).
As previously announced, Romanian director Christian Mungiu will head the Golden Goblet Awards jury, which also includes Chinese director Cao Baoping, Chinese screenwriter Li Qiang, Us/Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski, Japanese director...
- 5/19/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
David Tennant and Elisabeth Moss make an interesting team in this tale about Rd Laing’s radical LSD experiments in the 1960s
David Tennant and Elisabeth Moss have great chemistry as charismatic hippy psychiatrist Rd Laing and his PhD student girlfriend, Angie Wood, in Robert Mullan’s biopic. Laing ran Kingsley Hall, which swapped padded cells for LSD and group therapy to treat its mentally ill patients to inconsistent effect. There’s plenty of jazzy paisley shirts, flamboyant velvet suits and on-the-nose music cues to denote its psychedelic 1960s setting, but these elements do little to soften Laing’s eye-raisingly invasive and possibly inappropriate approach to his patients.
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David Tennant and Elisabeth Moss have great chemistry as charismatic hippy psychiatrist Rd Laing and his PhD student girlfriend, Angie Wood, in Robert Mullan’s biopic. Laing ran Kingsley Hall, which swapped padded cells for LSD and group therapy to treat its mentally ill patients to inconsistent effect. There’s plenty of jazzy paisley shirts, flamboyant velvet suits and on-the-nose music cues to denote its psychedelic 1960s setting, but these elements do little to soften Laing’s eye-raisingly invasive and possibly inappropriate approach to his patients.
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- 4/9/2017
- by Simran Hans
- The Guardian - Film News
Author: Guest
The reaction you have to Mad to Be Normal, the biopic of Scottish psychiatrist R.D Laing, who advocated new controversial ways of dealing with schizophrenia in the 1960s, will vary strongly depending on whether or not you have known anyone with the condition. If you haven’t, R.D Laing will be a pioneer of psychiatry who fought for mentally ill patients to be treated in a more humane light. If you have, the film will serve as a chilling reminder of the complete lack of understanding of schizophrenia in the 1960s; clueless doctors were constantly on the edge of discovery and were left to speculate and experiment on patients for answers, which allowed for mavericks like R.D Laing to surface.
The provocative film is written with an intimate understanding of the man by Robert Mullan, who interviewed the psychiatrist in the 1990s for his autobiography.
The reaction you have to Mad to Be Normal, the biopic of Scottish psychiatrist R.D Laing, who advocated new controversial ways of dealing with schizophrenia in the 1960s, will vary strongly depending on whether or not you have known anyone with the condition. If you haven’t, R.D Laing will be a pioneer of psychiatry who fought for mentally ill patients to be treated in a more humane light. If you have, the film will serve as a chilling reminder of the complete lack of understanding of schizophrenia in the 1960s; clueless doctors were constantly on the edge of discovery and were left to speculate and experiment on patients for answers, which allowed for mavericks like R.D Laing to surface.
The provocative film is written with an intimate understanding of the man by Robert Mullan, who interviewed the psychiatrist in the 1990s for his autobiography.
- 4/3/2017
- by Guest
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The controversial celebrity “anti-psychiatrist” Rd Laing was something like a Scottish Timothy Leary, a Swinging Sixties counterculture icon who attracted a cult following among the young, shared a stage with The Grateful Dead and dropped LSD with Sean Connery. A best-selling author and “acid Marxist,” Laing argued that mental illness was a valid reaction to the brutalizing realities of society and family. A radical opponent of prison-like asylums and anti-psychotic drugs, the Glasgow-born guru challenged the medical establishment while enjoying a hedonistic rock-star lifestyle, partying with famous fans including The Beatles.
A labor of love for first-time writer-director Robert Mullan,...
A labor of love for first-time writer-director Robert Mullan,...
- 3/31/2017
- by Stephen Dalton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Indian drama was recently refused a release certificate in India due to its subject matter.
Alankrita Shrivastava’s India-set drama Lipstick Under My Burkha has won the audience award at the 2017 Glasgow Film Festival, which closed last night (Feb 26).
The award, being presented for the third time, is the only prize handed out at the festival.
Scottish actor David Tennant presented the award at a ceremony that followed the event’s closing night screening, the world premiere of Robert Mullan’s Mad To Be Normal, which stars Tennant as Scottish psychiatrist Rd Laing.
Lipstick Under My Burkha tells the story of four Indian women seeking more from life than docile domesticity. The film premiered at Tokyo International Film Festival in October last year.
Last week, the film was refused a certificate for release by Indian censors, effectively banning it from cinemas in India.
Shrivastava commented: “Right now, when the film has been refused certification for exhibition in India...
Alankrita Shrivastava’s India-set drama Lipstick Under My Burkha has won the audience award at the 2017 Glasgow Film Festival, which closed last night (Feb 26).
The award, being presented for the third time, is the only prize handed out at the festival.
Scottish actor David Tennant presented the award at a ceremony that followed the event’s closing night screening, the world premiere of Robert Mullan’s Mad To Be Normal, which stars Tennant as Scottish psychiatrist Rd Laing.
Lipstick Under My Burkha tells the story of four Indian women seeking more from life than docile domesticity. The film premiered at Tokyo International Film Festival in October last year.
Last week, the film was refused a certificate for release by Indian censors, effectively banning it from cinemas in India.
Shrivastava commented: “Right now, when the film has been refused certification for exhibition in India...
- 2/27/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Closing this year’s Glasgow Film Festival, and having its world premiere on February 26, is the biopic “Mad to be Normal,” starring David Tennant and Elisabeth Moss.
Directed and written by Robert Mullan, the drama tells the story of world-renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing (Tennant) and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London, during the 1960’s. Empire shared the first look at the trailer, which you can check out below.
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Known as the “high priest of anti-psychiatry,” Laing used unconventional methods to treat people, including experimenting with LSD on his patients and practicing a form of self-healing known as metanoia. “Mad to be Normal” will go deep into Laing’s life, showing how his intelligence and arrogance made him equally revered and reviled. It will also capture his darker side and how many,...
Directed and written by Robert Mullan, the drama tells the story of world-renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing (Tennant) and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London, during the 1960’s. Empire shared the first look at the trailer, which you can check out below.
Read More: ‘Broadchurch’ Season 3 Trailer: David Tennant and Olivia Colman Team Up for a Final Case
Known as the “high priest of anti-psychiatry,” Laing used unconventional methods to treat people, including experimenting with LSD on his patients and practicing a form of self-healing known as metanoia. “Mad to be Normal” will go deep into Laing’s life, showing how his intelligence and arrogance made him equally revered and reviled. It will also capture his darker side and how many,...
- 2/1/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Handsome Devil to kick-off the event, Mad To Be Normal picked as Closing Film Gala.
The opening and closing night films of the Glasgow Film Festival (15-26 February) have been announced.
The European premiere of Handsome Devil, a coming-of-age story staring Sherlock and Spectre star Andrew Scott, will be the Opening Gala on 15 February. Scott stars alongside Fionn O’Shea and Nicholas Galitzine and John Butler (The Stag) directs. Radiant Films International is handling international sales for this title.
The world premiere of Mad To Be Normal (pictured below) will close the festival on festival on 26 February. David Tennant plays renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, with the Doctor Who star confirmed to attend the event.
Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Michael Gambon (the Harry Potter series) and Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects) co-star, with Robert Mullan (We Will Sing) directing.
The festival will also host the Scottish premiere of The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits Of John Berger...
The opening and closing night films of the Glasgow Film Festival (15-26 February) have been announced.
The European premiere of Handsome Devil, a coming-of-age story staring Sherlock and Spectre star Andrew Scott, will be the Opening Gala on 15 February. Scott stars alongside Fionn O’Shea and Nicholas Galitzine and John Butler (The Stag) directs. Radiant Films International is handling international sales for this title.
The world premiere of Mad To Be Normal (pictured below) will close the festival on festival on 26 February. David Tennant plays renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, with the Doctor Who star confirmed to attend the event.
Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Michael Gambon (the Harry Potter series) and Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects) co-star, with Robert Mullan (We Will Sing) directing.
The festival will also host the Scottish premiere of The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits Of John Berger...
- 1/5/2017
- ScreenDaily
The R.D. Liang biopic stars David Tennant in the lead role, alongside Elisabeth Moss.
Gsp Studios will commence sales of Mad To Be Normal, a biopic about Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, at the forthcoming Efm (Feb 11-19).
Production began last week on the film, which stars David Tennant as Liang, alongside Elisabeth Moss, Michael Gambon and Gabriel Byrne.
Gsp Studios is also acting as a co-producer on the project, which is being produced by London-based Gizmo Films in collaboration with Bad Penny Productions.
A four-week shoot is currently underway in the UK, much of which will be housed at Gsp’s production facilities in York, as well as on location in London.
International rights were previously being handled by sales outfit Double Dutch.
The film charts the story of world-renowned Scottish psychiatrist Laing and his acolytes at Kingsley Hall, East London, during the 1960s.
Writer and director Robert Mullan is a veteran documentarian and has also...
Gsp Studios will commence sales of Mad To Be Normal, a biopic about Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, at the forthcoming Efm (Feb 11-19).
Production began last week on the film, which stars David Tennant as Liang, alongside Elisabeth Moss, Michael Gambon and Gabriel Byrne.
Gsp Studios is also acting as a co-producer on the project, which is being produced by London-based Gizmo Films in collaboration with Bad Penny Productions.
A four-week shoot is currently underway in the UK, much of which will be housed at Gsp’s production facilities in York, as well as on location in London.
International rights were previously being handled by sales outfit Double Dutch.
The film charts the story of world-renowned Scottish psychiatrist Laing and his acolytes at Kingsley Hall, East London, during the 1960s.
Writer and director Robert Mullan is a veteran documentarian and has also...
- 2/9/2016
- ScreenDaily
Former Doctor Who star plays psychiatrist R. D. Laing.
Production is underway on R. D. Laing biopic Mad To Be Normal with David Tennant (Doctor Who) and Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) heading up the cast.
Shooting has begun in the UK on the project which charts the story of world-renowned Scottish psychiatrist Laing and his acolytes at Kingsley Hall, East London, during the 1960s.
Additional cast includes Michael Gambon (Gosford Park) and Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects).
Screen first announced the project last Cannes.
The film will be produced by London-based Gizmo Films, in collaboration with Gsp studios and Bad Penny Productions, the production company led by Phin Glynn (The Unbeatables).
It marks the fourth feature for Gizmo Films writer and director Robert Mullan, who is also the author of three books about Laing.
Tenant previously said about the film: “I have long been fascinated by the life and work of R. D. Laing...
Production is underway on R. D. Laing biopic Mad To Be Normal with David Tennant (Doctor Who) and Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) heading up the cast.
Shooting has begun in the UK on the project which charts the story of world-renowned Scottish psychiatrist Laing and his acolytes at Kingsley Hall, East London, during the 1960s.
Additional cast includes Michael Gambon (Gosford Park) and Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects).
Screen first announced the project last Cannes.
The film will be produced by London-based Gizmo Films, in collaboration with Gsp studios and Bad Penny Productions, the production company led by Phin Glynn (The Unbeatables).
It marks the fourth feature for Gizmo Films writer and director Robert Mullan, who is also the author of three books about Laing.
Tenant previously said about the film: “I have long been fascinated by the life and work of R. D. Laing...
- 2/2/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Gabriel Byrne has just joined David Tennant, Elizabeth Moss and Michael Gambon in Metanoia, a drama about mental illness that is being directed by Robert Mullan. The project is in pre-production and is set to begin filming in January. Double Dutch International is handling sales for the film at the now underway American Film Market. The pic chronicles world-renowned Scottish psychiatrist Rd Laing’s efforts in the 1960s to create a safe haven for people diagnosed with…...
- 11/5/2015
- Deadline
Double Dutch International (Ddi) President, Jason Moring, announced that his sales company has acquired the worldwide sales rights for "Metanoia" and attached "Harry Potter" actor Michael Gambon to the project.
"Metanoia" stars David Tennant ("Harry Potter," "Doctor Who," "Broadchurch"), Elisabeth Moss ( " Mad Men," "Queen of Earth"), will be directed by Robert Mullan, produced by Charlotte Arden and Harriet Hammond, and executive produced by Phin Glynn and Peter Dunphy.
The film is a co-production between Gizmo Films and Bad Penny Productions. "Metanoia" chronicles the world-renowned Scottish psychiatrist Rd Laing's efforts to create a safe haven for people diagnosed with psychosis and schizophrenia. He was known for advocating the medical use of LSD, still legal at the time, and argued for the breaking down of divisions between patients and doctors.
The movie is currently in pre-production and is set to shoot in January."The story of Rd Laing in incredibly captivating. To have Michael come onboard to compliment David and Elisabeth is a testament to the fascination of Laing himself, " said Jason Moring from Ddi. ...
"Metanoia" stars David Tennant ("Harry Potter," "Doctor Who," "Broadchurch"), Elisabeth Moss ( " Mad Men," "Queen of Earth"), will be directed by Robert Mullan, produced by Charlotte Arden and Harriet Hammond, and executive produced by Phin Glynn and Peter Dunphy.
The film is a co-production between Gizmo Films and Bad Penny Productions. "Metanoia" chronicles the world-renowned Scottish psychiatrist Rd Laing's efforts to create a safe haven for people diagnosed with psychosis and schizophrenia. He was known for advocating the medical use of LSD, still legal at the time, and argued for the breaking down of divisions between patients and doctors.
The movie is currently in pre-production and is set to shoot in January."The story of Rd Laing in incredibly captivating. To have Michael come onboard to compliment David and Elisabeth is a testament to the fascination of Laing himself, " said Jason Moring from Ddi. ...
- 9/14/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Double Dutch International (Ddi) announced in Toronto it has acquired worldwide sales to the biopic and attached Michael Gambon to join David Tennant on the cast.
Elisabeth Moss also stars in Metanoia with former Doctor Who Tenant (pictured) in the lead as the infamous Scottish psychiatrist Rd Laing who advocated the medical use of LSD.
Robert Mullan is scheduled to commence shooting in January and Charlotte Arden and Harriet Hammond produce. Phin Glynn and Peter Dunphy are executive producers on the Gizmo Films and Bad Penny Productions film.
“The story of Rd Laing in incredibly captivating,” said Ddi president Jason Moring. “To have Michael come on board to compliment David and Elisabeth is a testament to the fascination of Laing himself.”...
Elisabeth Moss also stars in Metanoia with former Doctor Who Tenant (pictured) in the lead as the infamous Scottish psychiatrist Rd Laing who advocated the medical use of LSD.
Robert Mullan is scheduled to commence shooting in January and Charlotte Arden and Harriet Hammond produce. Phin Glynn and Peter Dunphy are executive producers on the Gizmo Films and Bad Penny Productions film.
“The story of Rd Laing in incredibly captivating,” said Ddi president Jason Moring. “To have Michael come on board to compliment David and Elisabeth is a testament to the fascination of Laing himself.”...
- 9/12/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Former Doctor Who star Tennant to play renowned psychiatrist R.D. Laing, the ‘Acid-Marxist’.
Doctor Who and Broadchurch star David Tennant and Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss are to star in a biopic of renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.D.Laing.
Metanoia, a UK/Germany co-production will chart the story of Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London, during the 1960’s.
London-based Gizmo Films produces in collaboration with Mmc studios in Germany (Only Lovers Left Alive, Rush) and Bad Penny Productions, the production company led by Phin Glynn (The Unbeatables). Peter Dunphy is among executive producers.
It marks the fourth feature for Gizmo Films writer and director, Robert Mullan, who is also the author of three books about Laing.
Shooting will take place in the first quarter of 2016 at Mmc’s studios in Cologne and on location in London.
Tennant, who is currently in production on the Marvel and Netflix collaboration of Jessica Jones during...
Doctor Who and Broadchurch star David Tennant and Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss are to star in a biopic of renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.D.Laing.
Metanoia, a UK/Germany co-production will chart the story of Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London, during the 1960’s.
London-based Gizmo Films produces in collaboration with Mmc studios in Germany (Only Lovers Left Alive, Rush) and Bad Penny Productions, the production company led by Phin Glynn (The Unbeatables). Peter Dunphy is among executive producers.
It marks the fourth feature for Gizmo Films writer and director, Robert Mullan, who is also the author of three books about Laing.
Shooting will take place in the first quarter of 2016 at Mmc’s studios in Cologne and on location in London.
Tennant, who is currently in production on the Marvel and Netflix collaboration of Jessica Jones during...
- 5/15/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Screen award-winner among seven features funded by Lithuanian Film Centre (Lfc).
Kristijonas Vildziunas’ Seneca’s Day, winner of the Screen International best pitch award at last December’s Baltic Event, is one of seven projects - six features and one short - funded by the Lithuanian Film Centre (Lfc) with a total of 4.5m Ltl (€1.3m) this spring.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily during last week’s Vilnius International Film Festival, Vildziunas and his producer Uljana Kim of Studio Uljana Kim said that the film received 1.6m Ltl (€463,300) - 1.4m Ltl (€405,400) for 2014 and a recommendation of 200,000 Ltl (€57,920) for postproduction in 2015.
¨According to our financing plan, we’ll apply this autumn to the Lfc in order to complete the financing as now we still Have a gap for production and postproduction of 400,000 Ltl (€115,840),¨ Kim explained.
She revealed that the film’s Latvian co-producer Roberts Vinovskis of Locomotive Productions is participating in the production stage with camera and other...
Kristijonas Vildziunas’ Seneca’s Day, winner of the Screen International best pitch award at last December’s Baltic Event, is one of seven projects - six features and one short - funded by the Lithuanian Film Centre (Lfc) with a total of 4.5m Ltl (€1.3m) this spring.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily during last week’s Vilnius International Film Festival, Vildziunas and his producer Uljana Kim of Studio Uljana Kim said that the film received 1.6m Ltl (€463,300) - 1.4m Ltl (€405,400) for 2014 and a recommendation of 200,000 Ltl (€57,920) for postproduction in 2015.
¨According to our financing plan, we’ll apply this autumn to the Lfc in order to complete the financing as now we still Have a gap for production and postproduction of 400,000 Ltl (€115,840),¨ Kim explained.
She revealed that the film’s Latvian co-producer Roberts Vinovskis of Locomotive Productions is participating in the production stage with camera and other...
- 4/10/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Son Of India is one of the twenty-three films selected for the co- production market of Film Bazaar 2013. We spoke to the director Robert Mullan.
Robert Mullan
Tell us about your project. What language will it be in?
This is the story of an Englishman who falls in love twice: with a young tribal woman, Lila, and with India and her people. This is a life-affirming story. Although it is set against the rich and controversial backdrop of colonial times, essentially it is a love story. It shows the power and attraction of India. The film will be in English.
Which stage of development is it in currently?
We are in a development stage and attaching actors at the moment.
Tell us a little about you and your work.
I am an author, screenwriter and director. I have produced over 40 documentary films for Channel 4, BBC 2, Discovery, Vision TV, and Zdf,...
Robert Mullan
Tell us about your project. What language will it be in?
This is the story of an Englishman who falls in love twice: with a young tribal woman, Lila, and with India and her people. This is a life-affirming story. Although it is set against the rich and controversial backdrop of colonial times, essentially it is a love story. It shows the power and attraction of India. The film will be in English.
Which stage of development is it in currently?
We are in a development stage and attaching actors at the moment.
Tell us a little about you and your work.
I am an author, screenwriter and director. I have produced over 40 documentary films for Channel 4, BBC 2, Discovery, Vision TV, and Zdf,...
- 11/15/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
A t DearCinema, we are dedicated to independent filmmaking in India, and do all we can to give it the coverage it deserves.
We have tied up with the Nfdc Film Bazaar as their online partner and will bring you all the news, information and live updates from Film Bazaar 2013. We are also profiling all the projects selected for co-production market and Work-in-Progress Lab, besides Screenwriters’ Lab.
Film Bazaar aims to discover and support significant talent from South Asia and address key concerns of the world film community in the domains of film development, production, and distribution. From 2007 onward, Film Bazaar is a converging point for buyers and sellers and promotes Indian Cinema in the international domain.
Organised alongside the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) at the Goa Marriott Resort, the seventh Film Bazaar will be held from November 20 – 24, 2013.
Nfdc Screenwriters’ Lab 2013: Ashish Aryan’s T se Taj...
We have tied up with the Nfdc Film Bazaar as their online partner and will bring you all the news, information and live updates from Film Bazaar 2013. We are also profiling all the projects selected for co-production market and Work-in-Progress Lab, besides Screenwriters’ Lab.
Film Bazaar aims to discover and support significant talent from South Asia and address key concerns of the world film community in the domains of film development, production, and distribution. From 2007 onward, Film Bazaar is a converging point for buyers and sellers and promotes Indian Cinema in the international domain.
Organised alongside the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) at the Goa Marriott Resort, the seventh Film Bazaar will be held from November 20 – 24, 2013.
Nfdc Screenwriters’ Lab 2013: Ashish Aryan’s T se Taj...
- 11/13/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Veteran Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal and Qissa director Anup Singh are among the filmmakers who have had projects selected for the Co-production Market at this year’s Film Bazaar in Goa, India.Scroll down for full list of projects
Benegal has been making award-winning films since the 1970s – most recently satires Welcome To Sajjanpur and Well Done Abba. Singh’s Qissa: The Tale Of A Lonely Ghost is currently having a successful run on the festival circuit.
International projects at Film Bazaar include Amok, from Chilean director Valeria Sarmiento and produced by the UK’s Anna Holburn; UK filmmaker Robert Mullan’s Son Of India; Malabar Court, directed by Niara Modi and produced by Canada’s Paul Scherzer; and Polish director Piotr Trzaskalski’s Incredible.
The line-up also include one project in partnership with the Netherlands’ Boost programme, Bikas Mishra’s Wild Fire, and one project with Ifp, Varenya directed by Shripriya Mahesh.
Organised by the...
Benegal has been making award-winning films since the 1970s – most recently satires Welcome To Sajjanpur and Well Done Abba. Singh’s Qissa: The Tale Of A Lonely Ghost is currently having a successful run on the festival circuit.
International projects at Film Bazaar include Amok, from Chilean director Valeria Sarmiento and produced by the UK’s Anna Holburn; UK filmmaker Robert Mullan’s Son Of India; Malabar Court, directed by Niara Modi and produced by Canada’s Paul Scherzer; and Polish director Piotr Trzaskalski’s Incredible.
The line-up also include one project in partnership with the Netherlands’ Boost programme, Bikas Mishra’s Wild Fire, and one project with Ifp, Varenya directed by Shripriya Mahesh.
Organised by the...
- 10/22/2013
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Nfdc Film Bazaar has announced 28 selected projects for co-production market 2013. The seventh edition of Film Bazaar will take place from 21 – 24 November, 2013 in Goa.
Every year, the Co-Production Market invites a select number of directors and producers to present their projects to international producers, distributors, sales agents, funding representatives and other financial partners from across the world.
Sr. no. Project Name Applicant Name 1 28-Sri Prasanna Jayakody 2 Dawaat Nama Sabiha Sumar 3 Homestay Blues Miriam Chandy Menacherry 4 Pac-Man Anirban Datta 5 Incredible Piotr Trzaskalski 6 Scorpion’s Song Anup Singh 7 When Mirza Comes Back Kamal K.M. Karamattathil 8 Warm Bread & the Nipple’s Circle Roya Sadat 9 Son of India Robert Mullan 10 Circle of Fire Arnab Chaudhuri 11 Amok Valeria Sarmiento 12 Malabar Court Niara Modi 13 Oont
(The Camel Ride) Gaganvihari Borate 14 Taramandal
(Constellation) Rohit Pandey 15 Roads to Freedom Shyam Benegal 16 Lipstick Under My Burkha Alankrita Shrivastava 17 Bhiwani Mahendra Jakhar 18 The Watchmaker Must Die Again Jogavindra S. Khera...
Every year, the Co-Production Market invites a select number of directors and producers to present their projects to international producers, distributors, sales agents, funding representatives and other financial partners from across the world.
Sr. no. Project Name Applicant Name 1 28-Sri Prasanna Jayakody 2 Dawaat Nama Sabiha Sumar 3 Homestay Blues Miriam Chandy Menacherry 4 Pac-Man Anirban Datta 5 Incredible Piotr Trzaskalski 6 Scorpion’s Song Anup Singh 7 When Mirza Comes Back Kamal K.M. Karamattathil 8 Warm Bread & the Nipple’s Circle Roya Sadat 9 Son of India Robert Mullan 10 Circle of Fire Arnab Chaudhuri 11 Amok Valeria Sarmiento 12 Malabar Court Niara Modi 13 Oont
(The Camel Ride) Gaganvihari Borate 14 Taramandal
(Constellation) Rohit Pandey 15 Roads to Freedom Shyam Benegal 16 Lipstick Under My Burkha Alankrita Shrivastava 17 Bhiwani Mahendra Jakhar 18 The Watchmaker Must Die Again Jogavindra S. Khera...
- 10/22/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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