You may know him as Marc Antony from HBO's "Rome," or perhaps he rings a bell as Rawdon Crawley opposite Reese Witherspoon in
Vanity Fair. Jane Austen film fans know him as Tom Bertram, but he's also played Beau Brummell, and the Mayor of Casterbridge's nemesis. In any case, James Purefoy will soon play a humble 16th century swordsman, Solomon Kane, in an adaptation of the stories by Robert E. Howard.
From
Dark Horizons:
"Kane is a 16th century soldier who learns that his brutal and cruel actions have damned him but is determined to redeem himself by living peaceably. But he finds himself dragged out of retirement for a fight against evil."
Everything Johnny Depp is involved in appears to be cinematic gold.
Big time controversy about the filming of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, and whether or not the film's young stars knew what they were getting into -- and what it could mean for them now. Originally scheduled for a Nov. 2nd release, the film's debut has since been postponed to give the boys and their families an opportunity to leave Afghanistan, where they might face retaliation for participating in the film's controversial scenes.
Ben Kingsley's career takes him from Elizabethan England to 17th century India when he plays the emperor Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal in 1648 in memory of his beloved wife (played by Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai). The film will also recount the emperor's eventual imprisonment by his son -- it's said that he spent the last days of his life gazing upon his architectural masterpiece from the confines of his cell. (Probably all the slaves who toiled over the construction process didn't cry him a river. But we might, knowing Kingsley.)
