After a few rough career choices with The Paperboy and especially Trespass, it doesn’t look like it will be long before Nicole Kidman gets back on her feet. We recently got some delightfully creepy footage from her upcoming drama Stoker and now we have a first look at her with Colin Firth in the WWII drama The Railyway Man, but before we get to that, casting has come in another film featuring Kidman.
Variety reports that Olivier Dahan‘s Grace of Monaco, which features Kidman as the iconic Grace Kelly, has filled out its cast. Alfred Hitchcock, soon to be seen in Sacha Gervasi‘s biopic starring Anthony Hopkins, as well as the HBO movie The Girl, has a part in the film and Roger Ashton-Griffiths has come aboard to play the director, who worked with Kelly on Rear Window, Dial M For Murder and To Catch a Thief.
In other casting, Robert Lindsay joins the cast as businessman Aristotle Onassis, who knows the role well after playing the character on the stage, and is boyfriend to singer Maria Callas (Paz Vega). Geraldine Somerville is also on board as Princess Antoinette. Production is already underway, so I’d imagine that will be the last casting as Tim Roth, Frank Langella, Parker Posey and Milo Ventimiglia have already filled out the rest of the ensemble.
Back to Jonathan Teplitzky’s WWII post-traumatic stress story, The Railway Man. The film is based on the life of Eric Lomax (Firth), a man who found himself the victim of torture on the part of interrogators in a Japanese POW camp during World War II. War Horse star Jeremy Irvine plays a younger Firth in flashback scenes and after years of haunted memories, his wife, Patti (Kidman), staged a reunion with one of his captors, played by Hiroyuki Sanada. Check out the first official still below, sent in by a reader in high-resolution, for the film also starring Stellan Skarsgård.
Expect a 2013 release for both Monaco and Railway.