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Cannes Dealmakers Chew Over Bizarre New Plots
2003-05-17
CANNES, France - Crocodile Dundee star turns gay, the Village People are stalked by a killer and Brideshead is revisited.These and other bizarre plotlines are all being chewed over by deal-makers at the Cannes film festival this year, according to industry journals. And nowhere is providing more offbeat scripts than Australia at Cannes 2003. Director Anthony Mir flew in to promote "You Can't Stop The Murders" about a serial killer who targets members of disco group The Village People. "We wanted to put the fun back into homicide," he said of his black comedy. Paul Hogan, star of "Crocodile Dundee," pretends to turn gay in "Strange Bedfellows" with Michael Caton, the tale of two Australians in an outback town who pretend to be gay for tax reasons and then have to prove it. "It's the funniest script I have ever had sent to me," Hogan told Moving Pictures magazine. Warner Bros were reported to have finalized a deal to produce an adaptation of "Brideshead Revisited," the Evelyn Waugh novel that was turned into a television classic serial starring Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons. Leading British costume drama writer Andrew Davies told Screen International his adaptation moved away from the more foppish original. "I am much less enamoured of all that Oxford snobbery than some people," he said. Monty Python star Eric Idle is ready to have fun at the expense of the Merchant Ivory costume dramas that offered such an idyllic and stylized view of Britain. He is to write and direct "Remains of the Piano" starring Geoffrey Rush as an aristocrat who returns to Britain from India with a fortune and a piano. Reuters
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