Sky has announced that Gemma Arterton is set to lead a TV series adaptation of Nick Hornby’s bestselling novel Funny Girl, which follows a young woman from Blackpool finding her comic voice in the male dominated world of the 1960s sitcom.Funny Girl has been written by multi-award-winning writer Morwenna Banks, with BAFTA nominee Oliver Parker […]
Marc Webb to direct Westboro Baptist Church film This Above All
According to Variety, Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man, Gifted) has signed on to direct This Above All, a feature film based on the life story of Megan Phelps-Roper, a former member of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church.The granddaughter of Westboro founder Fred Phelps, Phelps-Roper grew up preaching the church’s hate speech, before coming to question […]
