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3 November 2009 11:29 PM, PST | IFTN | See recent IFTN news »

Producer Vicky Licorish (Goodbye, Mr. Steadman) has recently completed a labour of love in the shape of 'Small Island', a drama from Ruby Television in association with Al Films for BBC, which chronicles the intertwining lives and loves of Jamaicans and Londoners in the 1940s where English landlords' signs reading 'No Irish, No Coloureds, No Dogs' appeared to be the message of almost an entire country. 'Small Island' was filmed in Belfast and Jamaica during February / March 2009, with a few days also spent shooting in Dublin. The crew shot for six weeks in Belfast having transformed parts of the city into post war London. The drama feature, which is expected to broadcast as two 90 minute pieces, is adapted from Andrea Levy's novel of the same name, directed by John Alexander (The Shadow in the North) and adapted by Paula Milne (I Dreamed of Africa). Produced »

19 May 2009 1:37 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

In more adaptation-y news from Cannes, Kevin Spacey, Colin Firth and director Hugh Hudson (Chariots Of Fire) have signed on for a big-screen adaptation of George Orwell's Homage To Catalonia. Literary icon, satirist, animal lover: there were many strings to George Orwell's bow, but it's less well known that he was also a rifle-toting socialist who was gunned down fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War. Needless to say, he got up again and his Chumbawamba-style recovery is recorded in Homage To Catalonia, written on his return to England in 1938. It should provide a rich backdrop for the Hudson's first film since 1990's I Dreamed Of Africa. Catalonia will be magicked into script form by veteran screenwriter Bob Ellis, who will focus on the relationship between Orwell and Georges Kopp, the charismatic commander in the International Brigade with whom he formed a strong bond. Smart money is on »

2 articles from 2009