NEWS:
10/2/07 - Brightcove: a 5 minute trailer for The Golden Age
Movie Web: Clive Owen on the chemistry between Elizabeth and Raleigh and the love triangle
9/24/07 - The Golden Age at film.com (lots of clips)
8/1/07 - Golden Age related - New Book: Elizabeth's Spymaster — Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England" (Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin's Press, 399 pages, $25.95), by Robert Hutchinson: More than 400 years ago, England's Queen Elizabeth I appointed a single man in charge of both intelligence and security, with input on military strategy, too.
5/17/06 - New pictures HERE - plus a synopsis of the film - Thanks, Steph
4/30/07 - Gayle was lucky to attend a test screening of The Golden Age. (no real spoilers)
1/12/07 - Coming Soon: The
Golden Age (USA release, October 5, 2007) - "Reprising the
roles they originated in seven-time Academy Award®-nominated "Elizabeth," Cate
Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush return for a gripping historical thriller
laced with treachery and romance--"The Golden Age." Joining them
in the epic is Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh, a dashing seafarer
and newfound temptation for Elizabeth." - Thanks, Steph
8/1/06 - The
Golden Age Page at Working Title Films - and Principal
photography finishes - Thanks, Gieselle
7/28/06 - Shakhar Diary: Love
and Exploration - Our last day on a revamped A stage which has
now become a room in Raleigh’s London home, Durham House. It’s
also our last day with Clive and Abbie. With only three more shooting
days left, today is our last major dialogue scene as
Raleigh and Bess make love surrounded by the books and charts
that comprise Sir Walter’s dreams of a New World. And in doing
so the two begin another, equally dangerous, journey into the Queen’s
disfavour risking the wreck of their fortunes. - Thanks, marie at
the Forum
The Shakhar Diary - Raleigh
in the Tower - Thanks, Steph
7/17/06 - btinternet.com: Interesting
item 3 - It was one of his [Raleigh's] employees (Thomas
Hariot - see below) who brought back the first potato to the British
Isles and this was first planted on Raleigh's
Irish estate. Interesting item 4 - Raleigh made
smoking fashionable but it was Sir John Hawkins (or possibly Hariot
again, according to one account) who introduced tobacco to England.
There's more background information on the
history of tobacco here.
Kapur
Diary (Justin) - Wooden
Worlds - "Today Bess comes to find Raleigh in this, his wooden
world [The
Tyger]. But will a lady aboard ship bring Raleigh the bad luck
that sailing lore insisted a woman on board always brings?" -
Thanks, Steph
7/9/06 - Kapur Diary: "7th of July 2006 - Raleigh
announced to the Queen today that he wanted to return to the colony.
The Queen displayed a great deal of vulnerability during this scene but
I won’t give it away entirely! I would just like to note the way
Shekhar chose to shoot this scene as I thought it was rather insightful.... Read
more" - Thanks, Steph
7/5/06 - Kapur
Diary: "A return to the atrium of Elizabeth’s private
chambers where Bess Throckmorton and Raleigh dance the volta under
Elizabeth’s watchful eye" -- An image of Elizabeth dancing
the Volta.
7/3/06 - Three new entries in Kapur's
Diary: A
Moment Alone -- A
Day in the Country -- New
Worlds - Thanks, Steph
6/19/06 - Two new Raleigh related entries
at the Kapur Diary - With
This Ring and Dorney
Revisited - Thanks, Steph
6/15/06 - Interesting literary info
about Raleigh from Wikipedia: "The
School of Night (menioned in the Kapur diary comments) was
a cabal of men centered on Sir Walter Raleigh. They
were a collection of poets and scientists who included Christopher
Marlowe, George Chapman, Thomas Hariot, Richard Baines (who testified
against Marlowe in his trial for atheism), and the assassin of Marlowe,
Ingram Frizer. They studied science, philosophy, and religion, and
all were suspected of atheism. William Shakespeare seems to refer to
them in Love's Labour's Lost when he says, ". . . Black is the
badge of hell/ The hue of dungeons and the School of Night." Atheism
at that time was a charge nearly the equivalent of treason, since the
monarch was the head of the church and to be against the church was, ipso
facto, to be against the monarch. However, it was also a sign of
anarchy, and it was a charge frequently brought against the politically
troublesome. There is no reason to believe that any of the figures
were, or were not, atheists or revolutionaries. -- References: Muriel
C. Bradbrook, The School of Night: A Study in the Literary Relationships
of Raleigh (1936)"
4/28/06 - Ely
Cathedral: "The filming is scheduled to start on 24th May
and finishes on 2nd June. However there will be a great deal of activity
beforehand on Cross Green and the East Lawn as the film crew are
due to begin their preparation & set up around 8th May. The bulk
of filming will be taking place in the Lady Chapel although there
will be 3 days of filming in the nave." - Thanks, Steph
4/5/06 - Shekhar Kapur, the director
of The Golden Age, has
begun a diary on the film. - Thanks, mgill
3/23/06 - UK fans take note --- Cambridge
Evening News: Do
you look pale and interesting? -- MEN
with beards and pale, interesting ladies step forward - you could be
in line for a part in a major new film. Cambridge residents will have
the chance to act in a sequel to the Oscar-winning 1998 film, Elizabeth.
Producers are looking for extras for The Golden Age, parts of which
will be filmed in Cambridge and Ely this May. - Thanks, Steph
3/16/06 - Working
Title's page on The Golden Age
3/15/06 - Cambridge Evening
News: Elizabeth's
tour of region - LEADING
actors Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen are heading to Cambridge and Ely
- to film a new period drama. (New location
info)
3/13/06 - The Guardian: Cate
back for Elizabeth II - the sequel that is - New British
production will take up story 15 years after end of original hit
-- "...Though the real Dudley lived until 1588, the year of
the Armada, Elizabeth's virginal but roving eye will this time
alight on Clive Owen's Sir Walter Raleigh. Tim Bevan, co-founder
of Working Title, describes the film as "an Elizabethan thriller".
- Thanks to all who found this
2/17/06 - From
Marg at the forum: "This is in todays Daily Mail: 'Abbie Cornish,a
major star in the making, has been honing her English accent. Her
Australian tones wouldn't exactly suit her next role: a lady-in-waiting
to Elizabeth 1. In April, she goes before the cameras in The Golden
Age,with Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett once again playing Elizabeth
and Clive Owen as the swashbuckling Sir Walter Raleigh,who upsets
the Queen when he falls in love with her lady-in-waiting, Bess
Throckmorton,
played by Ms. Cornish.......
About.com on The Golden Age
11/10/05 - The Baltimore Sun: Clive
talking with Liz Smith via phone: This part is interesting! " As
much as the actor looks forward to the success of Derailed, he is
thrilled with his coming Elizabeth: The Golden Age movie with Cate
Blanchett. Directed by Shekhar Kapur, this is a sequel to Kapur's
brilliant 1998 Elizabeth, in which Blanchett showed the evolution
of England's first Queen Elizabeth, from sexy, high-spirited princess
to powerful icon-in-her-own time ruler, the untouchable Virgin Queen.
Owen, who will play Sir Walter Raleigh, says, "I took one look
at this script and I said yes! It's fresh and exciting. And most
of the creative team from Elizabeth is back on this one." -
Thanks, Steph
The
Guardian on The Golden Age: "...Produced by Working Title
and Universal Pictures from a script by William Nicholson and Michael
Hirst, the film, which is due to start shooting in April, will
be directed by Shekhar Kapur, who also directed Elizabeth."
Canoe-Jam
on The Golden Age. Thanks, Wendy
Cinematical: "...In
a bit of great news for us history nerds, Raleigh will be played by the
equally dashing Clive Owen. This way, we can combine learning with gazing
at Clive. Good work, casting people!"
A
different view on The Golden Age from Moviehole: "According
to today's Variety, Cate Blanchett has dotted her i's
and crossed her t's to reprise her role as Queen Elizabeth I
in the "Elizabeth" follow-up, "The
Golden Age", but the actress tells a different story in an interview
with today's Herald Sun in Australia. Blanchett essentially
says she's not interested in repeating herself, and that a sequel
to "Elizabeth" isn't really necessary. "No, everyone keeps asking
me that. I'm really good friends with Shekhar [Kapur] and he's
forever saying he's going to do this movie or that movie and I
think there was talk about it", she explains. "There's so much
there if it were to happen, but my initial instinct is, why?".
The trades stated today that the sequel would co-star Geoffrey
Rush and Clive Owen, and start filming in April. Guess we'll wait
and see though, right? Sounds like someone's going to have to wave
a freshly-printed roll of Ben's in-front of Ms Blanchett." -
Thanks, Steph
9/1/05 - Variety: "Geoffrey
Rush and Clive Owen will star opposite Cate Blanchett in Working
Title and Universal Pictures' The Golden Age, a sequel to 1998's
Elizabeth. Variety says the film will be directed by Shekhar
Kapur, who helmed the first movie."
The
IMDb has added a page on the possible Elizabeth and Raleigh film
The Epoch Times: Cate
Blanchett and the Golden Age
The UK Telegraph: The
stuff of magic: Owen plays Raleigh to Blanchett's
Elizabeth - By Chris Hastings, Arts Correspondent (Filed:
19/06/2005) Clive Owen, the brooding star of Closer and Sin
City, is to play Sir Walter Raleigh in a £20 million sequel
to the 1998 film Elizabeth. Thanks, Sue
Another report from Time
Out London: "Clive Owen to
play Sir Walter Raleigh - Clive Owen to join
Cate Blanchett for sequel to 'Elizabeth'"
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