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  • Homeland’s Damian Lewis will star alongside Nicole Kidman in ‘Queen Of The Desert’

    Homeland’s Damian Lewis will star alongside Nicole Kidman in ‘Queen Of The Desert’

    MUMBAI: Damian Lewis, who has won Golden Globes and Emmys for his work as POW-turned-terrorist Nicolas Brody in Showtime’s Homeland, is near a deal to star opposite Nicole Kidman in director Werner Herzog’s Queen Of The Desert. The UK-born Lewis won’t have to hide his homegrown accent for the feature: He will play Lt. Col. Charles Doughty-Wylie, an unhappily married English war hero who engages in a turbulent affair with Gertrude Bell (Kidman), with whom he exchanged love letters with from 1913-1915 until he was killed in active duty at Gallipoli. Production is scheduled to begin in December.

    Queen Of The Desert refers to Bell, the iconic explorer, writer, archeologist and attaché for the British Empire who is credited with helping to catalyse the formation of the Middle East at the dawn of the 20th century. Nick Raslan is producing through his Palmyra Films banner along with Cassian Elwes and Michael Benaroya. Benaroya Pictures banner is financing the film.

  • Jolie in a biopic by Ridley Scott

    Jolie in a biopic by Ridley Scott

    MUMBAI: Ridley Scott will soon direct Angelina Jolie for his forthcoming film Gertrude Bell, a biopic of a pioneering figure in the Middle East in the early 20th Century. The project is being developed by Scott‘s Scott Free Productions.

    Bell, who worked for British intelligence during the first World War, was described as a ‘key asset‘ in helping dismantle the Ottoman Empire and also founding Iraq that won her admiration of many a Arab. She had a passion for archaeology and languages and wrote about her adventures in the region.

    Jolie, 36, whose directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey hits theaters next month, has a number of acting projects in development.

    The actress last starred in The Tourist opposite Johnny Depp.