In article ,
Twitchell wrote:
> http://www.showbiz411.com/2010/07/29/madonna-film-on-the-windsors-wally-and-wa
> llis
>
> Madonna’s directing her first feature film in the United Kingdom. The word
> is,
> it’s a mess. Are we surprised? “The crew turnover is constant,” says one
> source.
> Says another: “The movie may be brilliant, but it’s unlikely anyone working
> on
> it will to live to see it finished.”
She should either give up her film dreams, or go to film school.. She
can't act, she can't write and she can't direct. She has a knack for
fashion, makeovers, and dance. She should do a musical, instead about
the Abdication Crisis in 1936. Besides, Wallis was an excuse for the
Abdication Crisis, The British Establishment didn't want ...s King,
and they were right in hindsight.
>
> Madonna is “micro managing everything.” they say. “Everything has to be
> approved
> by her. Everything.”
>
> Madonna Louise Ciccone from the Detroit area is now such an Anglophile that
> she
> is obsessed with the saga of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. In case you’ve
> never seen or read “Edward and Mrs. Simpson,” and haven’t studied this
> history:
> King Edward abdicated the throne in order to marry an American commoner,
> Wallis
> Simpson. She was already married at the time. Edward’s brother George
> ascended
> to the throne, thus setting the stage for the current occupants of Buckingham
> Palace. Queen Elizabeth is Edward’s niece.
>
> I’ve just read the January draft of “W.E.” which is said to have been revised
> many times over since then. But the basic premise is still in place. Madonna
> and
> Alek Keshishian have written the Windsor story as if it were “Wally and
> Wallis”–as in “Julie and Julia” — or “The Hours.” The script cuts back and
> forth
> between a modern young woman named Wally and the imagined events of the
> distant
> past with Wallis Simpson. Eventually they meet–impossibly–as contemporary
> Wally
> draws strength from Wallis.
>
> To make matters more stressful, Wally even goes to London and finds Mohammed
> el-Fayed, the real guy, and convinces him to let her read Wallis Simpson’s
> letters. (He owns them now.) I don’t know if Mohammed el-Fayed is in the
> shooting script, but if he is, Madonna is unlikely to be partying with the
> Queen
> any time soon. el-Fayed is famously the owner of Harrod’s and father of the
> late
> Dodi Fayed, who died with Princess Diana. Queen Elizabeth is well known for
> her
> distaste of el-Fayed, to be sure.
>
> “W.E.” is filming now. You can bet Madonna will try and get it into Cannes
> next
> May. The waiting, as Tom Petty sings, is the hardest part. |
