The first posters have been released for The Danish Girl, based on the novel by David Ebershoff. Indiewire reported that the film "is one of those projects that has been lying around in many, many different incarnations for several years.... But the project took on a new direction when Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) took on the mantle. Instead of two female leads, one of them undergoing surgery to become a man, Hooper decided to cast Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) as Elbe which seems like an inspired choice given our cultural conversation about gender fluidity and the rise of transgendered awareness, acceptance and empathy."
The movie, which co-stars Alicia Vikander, Ben Whishaw, Amber Heard and Matthias Schoenaerts, "will be doing the rounds at the fall film festival circuit, making its world premiere in Venice and its North American premiere in Toronto" before its general release November 27.
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The first trailer is out for Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation, adapted from the book by Uzodinma Iweala and starring Idris Elba. Indiewire reported that "while the film will debut on Netflix [October 16], it will also receive a theatrical release to qualify for the Oscars and will land all over the fall film festival circuit."
