We have a couple of updates today.  The first one thanks to @NickRaslan

Now we wait for a confirmation either way hopefully very soon. Keeping everything tightly crossed! I really would LOVE to see Rob as T.E Lawrence.

And we also have 2 more ‘rumoured’ cast members added to IMDb Pro, Jay Abdo & Jihad Abdu:

 

We posted here an update from Cassian Elwes who tweeted that QOTD shooting with the actors will begin January 2014 & now we have this info from Backstage:

 

I CANNOT wait for 2014 – not long to go now

For those who follow us on Twitter, they will have seen that one of the producers Nick Raslan tweeted that pre-shooting was commencing on QoTD on 18 December 2013.  Now Cassian Elwes has tweeted:

“@QOTDfilm: @NickRaslan is producing @QOTDfilm #QOTD along with @cassianelwes & @MichaelBenaroya”/correct

— cassian elwes (@cassianelwes) November 29, 2013

Werner will shoot some 2nd unit before Xmas and then shooting with the actors begins January. Very exciting #qotd

— cassian elwes (@cassianelwes) November 29, 2013

Excite!  Rob’s going to bring us an epic 2014 that’s for sure.

According to IMDbPro, two new cast members have been added.  If the December 15 2013 start date we posted previously is indeed correct, there’s not too long to go now *happy dance*

 

Squeeeeeee *dances through RPAU* we have been hoping & praying for a start date & now we have one. Keeping everything tightly crossed. All the info thanks to Backstage:

NEW Queen of the Desert (Drama) This film is based on the life and loves of Gertrude Bell, the English writer, archaeologist, and cartographer who mapped Iraq and Jordan in the early 1900s. With Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson, James Franco, and Damian Lewis. Directed by Werner Herzog. Casting: Shannon Makhanian, 354 S. Cochran Ave., Ste. 108, Los Angeles, CA 90036. Shoots Dec. 15, 2013–Jan. 15, 2014, in London, Jordan, and Morocco.

 

I know this is kind of up in the air but lookey what is included in this week’s update for pre-production from The Film Catalogue:

I know it says completion year 2013, but we will just ignore the fact that they haven’t updated that yet shall we (or have fingers crossed that it may happen).