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the REPORT Stewart CONTINUED FROM 1 Road In Competition. But a�er years of working on the movie and being immersed in the cra�, Stewart aims to build a directing career. “Doing that at 50 is not the easiest ting to do,” Stewart candidly told THR. Along with partner Tom Wright, Stewart and casting director Pam Dixon assembled a cast including Goran Visnjic (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) to tell the tale of K-11, a McAlpine CONTINUED FROM 1 took a year out of the business a�er his beloved company went into administration to recover and take stock, before “operating under the radar for the last two years or so,” McAlpine said. “For the last two years I’ve been quietly buying up �lm rights and I’ve made a �lm,” McAlpine said. “I didn’t want to make any big announcements until I actually had something concrete to show for my e�orts.” He is moving into �nancing and producing projects in the venture with parter Carole Siller. While he is yet to reveal his new Londonbased venture’s name McAlpine, who have a tapestry of private investors backing his activities and is also raising money using the Enterprise Investment scheme, is putting the �nal touches to his �rst �lm as a co-producer Riot On Redchurch Street. Directed by Trevor Miller, the �lm details the tale of a clash between the party-goers and fashion types and the muslim community in London’s fashionable east end district Shoreditch. It stars Sam Hazeldine, Alysson Paradis, Jesse secure unit of the Los Angeles Country jail where transgender, homosexual and transexual inmates are placed to separate them from the danger they would face in the normal prison population. The movie made its world debut during the Marche du Film in Cannes via Londonbased Intandem which is selling the project worldwide. It signals Stewart’s stated ambition to aim to make movies about uniquely di�erent subjects. “The whole point for me is to tell stories that are di�erent and 10 ABOUT TOWN Rain, thunder and howling winds on Sunday brought a London feel to Cannes and forced industry folks, including Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson, to bring out umbrellas. The unseasonable weather in the South of France left the Croisette much less crowded during the film festival. Various industry events had to be moved to alternative locations or cancelled. unique hence K-11,” Stewart said. She co-wrote the script with Jared Kurt and shot the $3 million budgeted movie for 25 days in Los Angeles. “It was a union movie. Because I have got access in Los Angeles and even though I couldn’t pay top dollar I wanted to make sure everyone got the proper medical insurances, you know, I wanted everyone to be treated properly.” She even put some of her money into the project because “I didn’t want to be judged on someone else’s merit.” THR Birdsall and Les McKeown and is produced by McAlpine, Carole Siller, Paul Woolf and Sean McLusky and aims to be locked down by the end of June. McAlpine said he plans to raise a slice of the budget for each production he mounts through pre-sales or the fees from sales companies looking to hawk his titles, “on a project-by-project basis.” He is also prepping Lost Girl, a �lm written by Susan Everett to be directed by Rankin. Billed as a contemporary ghost story, the movie is slated to go into production in the Summer of 2013. McAlpine is old friends with the fashion photographer and distributed The Lives of the Saints in 2006. The returning McAlpine also said he is looking to mount television shows in addition to making movies. He has sealed a deal with novelist Magdelen Nabb’s son Liam Nabb to develop and co-produce �lms and television based on the author’s books. McAlpine said: “I want to turn her work into �lm or television depending on what is appropriate. We’re [with Liam Nabb] developing a tv show based on the book The Monster of Florence and I think it will be a four part tv how,” McAlpine said. THR Physician Adaptation Names Cast By Scott Roxborough BEN KINGSLEY, TOM Payne and Stellen Skarsgard have joined the cast of the medieval period drama The Physician, based on the best-selling novel by Noah Gordon about a healer traveling across Europe in the 11th century. Payne, a regular on the HBO series Luck and whose credits include the BBC’s Waterloo Road and the feature Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Skarsgard will star as the physician Rob Cole, who searches for the scienti�c truth of Payne illness and healing in a medieval world dominated by religion and superstition. Kingsley Gordon’s novel has sold more than 21 million copies worldwide. Oscar-winner Ben Kingsley will play Ibn Sina, the socalled “doctor of all doctors” while Stellan Skarsgard, seen most recently in Disney/ Marvel blockbuster The Avengers, will play Barber, Rob Cole’s �rst mentor. French actor Olivier Martinez (Unfaithful, S.W.A.T.) has also signed up to play the Shah Ala ad-Daula. German director Philipp Stoelzl, whose credits include the period dramas North Face and Young Goethe in Love, will lens The Physician script, which Jan Berger (The Door) is adapting for the screen. The Oscar-winning postproduction house Pixomondo (Hugo) will handle visual e�ects work for the �lm. Shooting on The Physician is set to start in Morocco and Germany next month. Beta Cinema is co-producing The Physician with Ufa Cinema. Beta is handling world sales and selling the project to buyers at Cannes’ Marche du Film. THR day6_news1,2,8,10.indd 4 5/20/12 9:34 PM ANDREAS RENTZ/GETTY IMAGES
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