Back in January it was revealed that Weekend and Looking helmer Andrew Haigh was working on a biopic of legendary fashion designer Alexander McQueen. Now he’s found the man to play the central role, with THR reporting that Unbroken and Money Monster’s Jack O’Connell has signed on.
McQueen had a meteoric rise as a fashion designer, becoming renowned as one of the best in Britain by his early 20s, with his immaculate tailoring shocking, surprising and delighting fashion watchers in equal measure. He became one of the go-to designers for the hip and trendy, making outfits for David Bowie tours and working with Bjork (including directing the video for Alarm Call). He was appointed the head designer for Givenchy before launching his own successful label.
However, he also had issues with drug dependence and depression, and while he was openly gay (he said he knew he was gay when he was six and came out in his teens) he struggled to maintain relationships. He tragically committed suicide when he was just 40 years old, only days after his mother died of cancer.
The film will ‘explore the creative process of McQueen – who passed away in 2010 – in the months leading up to one of his greatest shows in 2009, providing an intimate portrait of the man behind the global brand.’
Chris Urch has written the script, based on Blood Beneath the Skin by Andrew Wilson. The current plan is to start shooting in January, with the hope it will be ready by the end of 2017 (and therefore a prime Oscar release slot).
While Aardman Animation has had plenty of critical praise and armloads of Oscars (mainly for Best Animated Short), but it’s had less success with its feature-length project at the box office, to the point the Sony Pictures Animation parted ways with the company after lower than expected return. However, they’ve since team up with Studiocanal and decided that following the success of 2015’s Shaun The Sheep Movie, they’re working on a sequel.
While Moonlight has been getting exceptional reviews, it looks like a lot of people have been underestimating its box office potential – probably because they presumed its gay and African-American themes would limit its appeal (which is also probably why it wasn’t picked up by a major distributor). However, it’s surprised many by scoring an exceptional $103,675 per screen average on its first weekend of release in the US.
Since the release of the final Hobbit movie, things have been fairly quiet on the Peter Jackson front. While another Tintin film is floating around, he’s generally been taking a break from writing, directing and producing movies. Now though it’s been announced he’s set to write and produce an adaptation of Philip Reeve’s science fiction fantasy book, Mortal Engines, according to 
The first of the Star Wars side movies, Rogue One, hits in December, but Disney/Lucafilm is already planning the next, which will be based on the early days of Han Solo. Alden Ehrenreich is set to play the main role, and now it’s been officially announced that Community’s Donald Glover will be the young Lando Calrissian.
