Ioncinema has posted their top 25 anticipated “studio” films and Lost City of Z is no. 3. I also like the comment “this may be the rare studio feature that makes the cut in 2016” re Cannes.  Time will tell I guess whether it’s even ready for selection. Fingers crossed because we do like our CannesRob.

 

 

Can’t wait to read Peter Bradshaw’s review of this film *heavysarcasm*. From The Guardian:

“29) The Lost City of Z
Having been let go from the shackles of starring in Fifty Shades of Grey, Charlie Hunnam has a pop at another strapping lad with whip – real-life jungle explorer Percival Fawcett, who never returned from a 1925 trip in search of a lost Amazon civilisation. Sienna Miller plays his missus, Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland also don the khaki.”

Have a feeling we will be seeing this movie pop up on anticipated lists – much like The Childhood of a Leader – although not surprised it was missing from this list (see reviews).

 

I know we already know, but it’s so much better seeing it in print.  From IMDbPro and I can say that it still said “filming” last night so it clearly took a few days to update. Look at the timeline too – over 7 years to get this beauty off the ground.

Holy moly - and thanks to Kate for the crop – no point reinventing the wheel!

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Thanks ROBsessed & Cosmo

Be still my beating heart … the lace up boots are back #shadesofwfe

 

Thanks @Robjectify

This is a really interesting read and makes me amazed even more that this film actually is in the middle of filming considering the logistics.  Can’t wait to see this film obviously. PS. If you don’t want to now anything about the film don’t read the article!

(Translation) THE ART OF WAR
So Film By Jordan Mintzer, in Belfast. Photos: Darius Khondji (photograms) and Aidan Monaghan (pictures of the plateau)

It could have been his great movie cursed, and then not. After The Immigrant, James Gray released his great adventure movie: The Lost City of Z. And before you go turn in the depths of the jungle, the New Yorkers is to reconstruct the bloody battle of the Somme, in the green valleys of the Ireland. Feet in the mud.  The Lost City of Z: this is the title of what could go down in history as “the adventure film cursed James Gray. And yet, before going to sink into the Colombian jungle, New Yorkers is thence straight into his boots, planted in the mud, in the Irish countryside, to reconstitute its battle of the Somme, with Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson. An adventure movie as it does more. Reportage.

“Forty shades of green”: it is in these words which Johnny Cash described the Irish countryside in his 1959 song. Fact: when one leaves Belfast North and you will come to the surrounding hills, the explosion of emerald green, jade and olive is striking. The landscape consists almost to lush meadows separated by oaks, of hazels, birches, and dotted with dozens of sheep that seem to have each half a hectare to feed themselves.  But after having exited the coastal town of Larne and continued to advance in the mountains, we discover a landscape for the least surprising, on this Sunday morning, September: on a surface that seems to cover a whole farm estate, green pastures have all been trashed, mangled, massacred in the bulldozer. A network of trenches, heaps of debris and a maze of mud and barbed wire, that is what remains. On sections of the meadow, one that tilts toward the sky and brand the horizon, vaguely distinguishable helmets sharp, typical of German soldiers of the Empire, through the smoke. On the other, in the quagmire of the trenches, dozens of British troops waiting for their commanding officer gives them the signal to go on no man’s land, towards a likely death.