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Sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer recently visited the Los Angeles set of Flash Forward, a new ABC series based on his novel of the same name. Click below to see him hanging out with Joseph:

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» On the set of ‘Flash Forward’

I’ve finally been able to add a picture of Joseph at the 13th Annual Capri Hollywood International Film Festival to the gallery, which he attended on December 30th.

I’ve also added a total of 102 screencaptures of Joseph’s WWI drama The Red Baron to the gallery. Click below to see them:

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» 13th Annual Capri Hollywood International Film Festival
» ‘The Red Baron’ Screencaptures

2274 screencaptures of Joseph’s 2007 drama Goodbye Bafana have been added to the gallery. See them by clicking below:

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» ‘Goodbye Bafana’ Screencaptures

There may be a new project for Joseph in the near future, playing Dr. Richard Hoskins, a professor at Bath Spa University who helped the police on the investigation of the death of Adam, a young man whose body was found mutilated floating in the Thames.

Hoskins’ book, Sacrifice, is in talks to be made into a film, and there’s speculation Joe will play the expert in African religions. Joseph has recently visited Shebbear College, where Richard currently works, held a workshop on Shakespeare with its promising drama students (as reported HERE) and discussed the potential of the book as a screenplay.

When asked if he can see Joseph Fiennes playing him in a film, Dr. Hoskins replied,

Yeah I do. He’s a great guy. He’s a really lovely person and he’s got real integrity. He is one of those actors who, pretty much right across the board, has chosen his parts on what he believes in, that he identifies with. He’s not a commercial fellow. Because he loves the story and has really got a grip on it I couldn’t think of anyone better to play me.

Source: This Is Not Devon

Brannon Braga, a writer and producer for Joseph’s upcoming TV pilot, Flash Forward, talked to iFMagazine about it:

It’s called FLASH FORWARD. It’s an ABC pilot. It’s based on a science fiction novel by Robert Sawyer, the concept is, everybody on earth blacks out all at the same time — billions of people. It’s two minutes and during that time they have visions of the future. It’s a big, kind of contemporary science-fiction idea Joseph Fiennes plays the lead. It will be a great cast. We shoot next month. Goyer and I wrote it, he’s directing it, I’m producing it. We’re hoping it gets picked up.

IFC Films has acquired US distribution rights to the prison break film “The Escapist,” starring Brian Cox and Joseph Fiennes and directed by tyro helmer Rupert Wyatt.

The film premiered stateside at Sundance in 2008 and will be released in April of this year. Pic has already opened in the U.K., where it received a British Independent Film Award and a BAFTA Scotland award for Cox’s perf.

Source: Variety

Vertigo Films have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of The Escapist on 9th February 2009. Extras include:

• Audio Commentary with Rupert Wyatt and Dominic Cooper
• The Making of The Escapist
• Behind the Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Storyboard Comparison

Amazon UK price: £8.98. Make sure you get your copy!

Source: DVD Times

Brannon Braga, one of the co-creators and executive producers of “Star Trek: Enterprise”, gave the SyFy Portal some more details on Flash Forward:

Each season will begin with a vision, and will end when the vision comes to pass. Ultimately, it will question fate versus free will, and exactly how big a role the individual plays in the battle.

In a recent interview with Sci Fi Wire, Braga dropped a view details about the new show.

“Thematically that’s what the show is about, for sure,” he said. “Yeah, and seeing how these people’s visions come true or not come true or come true because they tried to not make it come true. Some people want it to come true. Some people don’t want it to come true. It’s a fascinating concept. We’re very excited about it.”

Based on Robert Sawyer’s novel, “Flashforward”, the new show will ask some pretty heavy questions.

“That [the novel] was the impetus for it and the idea of the entire world blacking out at the same time for a discrete amount of time, and everybody on Earth having mysterious visions of the future. Same idea.” Braga said. “Obviously, to do a TV show, you have to sustain potentially — and God willing — 100 episodes or more; you’ve got to change the concept a little bit. His [Sawyer’s] novel had people having visions of the future 20 years from now. We change that to five months from now and kind of narrowed down the scope a little bit and made it a little bit more of an intimate epic. But essentially the concept is the same.”

“It’s so early in the game, [but] we have a lot planned,” Braga goes on to say. “We have a lot we want to do. Before we sold the show, we sat down, and we were like, ‘This is a big idea. We want to have as much as we can planned for the duration of the show in case it does go. We don’t want to be winging it.’”

While promoting his new film, The Unborn, director David Goyer talked a little about his upcoming projects. He gave some new details on Flash Forward:

The next project directing-wise is I co-wrote a pilot for ABC called Flash Forward with Brannon Braga, I’ll be directing that in February and we just cast Joseph Fiennes and John Cho from Harold and Kumar, and Courtney Vance, and Jack Davenport, a couple of other guys. So we’ll be shooting that in February and I think it’s designed for ABC, at least it’s meant to be a companion to Lost.  So we’ll be shooting that in L.A.

Source: Movies Online

Joe is being considered for a new project, billed as “the Spanish Joan of Arc”. Cillian Murphy and Jonathan Rhys Meyers are also being considered for the role of LT, General Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington). Other possible actors attached to the film are Natalia Tena (who played Tonks on the last Harry Potter film) as Agustina Raimunda Maria Saragossa Domenech, a famous Spanish heroine who defended her country’s independence during the Peninsular Wars against Napoleon, Daniel Radcliffe as a young Lord Byron and Penelope Cruz or Eva Mendes to play Augustina’s older sister.

British journalist Richard Thompsett has written the screenplay. “We are hoping to shoot the film this year in either Lithuania or Malta with a couple of weeks in Zaragoza on location,” adds Max Montalvo, a Spanish based producer with Intervision Partners. “But we’ve been told Radcliffe is not available until 2010 so we might have to wait. Hopefully if Tena says yes, he’ll want to take on the role as well.”

“We are in advanced talks with The Weinstein Company to make the film, as part of a five year deal on a slate of films. I have talked to other studios, but I get on very well with The Weinstein Company. If they agree to take on Agustina we’ll do most of the financing and they’ll distribute it.”

The plan is to turn the film into a franchise with prequels and sequels. A director is yet to be attached to Agustina.

Source: Screen Daily