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Welcome to CinemaToast(September 2003) Frances O’Connor Timeline This movie (and Crichton’s novel) introduces the idea of time travel to the Middle Ages- via a “3-D FAX machine”- as being terrifying and horrific- especially to modern college students. Writer Crichton and director Donner promise a realistic look at the time period, without all the glamorous movie trappings sometimes associated with medieval drama. There's lots of gore, and it's a real representation of the time. The movie was originally going to be released
in December of 2002. Then there was a massive summer 2003 opening
planned. Neither happened. Now it’s scheduled to open for the holiday
season of this year. We have our fingers crossed. Besides the lovely Ms O’Connor, the cast also includes Paul Walker (The Fast and The Furious), Gerard Butler (Reign of Fire), Billy Connolly (Mrs. Brown) and David Thewlis (The Big Lebowski). To Our Fans |
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In
Bedazzled (2000), she was the gorgeous but hopeless object of
Elliot’s desire, who barely knew he existed; and in A.I.
(2001), she was the surrogate mother to robot-boy David, but was
oh-so-quick to abandon him in the woods when her ‘real’ son is
cured; Frances O’Connor is the English-born but
Australian-raised actor who makes the hearts of some of us here at The
Toast race. Frances is a beauty with dark eyes like limpid pools and
a smile (which is used sparingly) that could light up Sidney harbor. She
can act too, in Bedazzled she appears as a different character in
seven fantasy wishes- from the dream-like lovely floating down the
beach, to a Mexican spitfire- full of vinegar and spirit.
Now
we can look forward to her in an upcoming movie directed by Richard
Donner (The Omen, Superman, Lethal Weapon and Scoorged)
from a story by Michael Crichton (The Andromeda
Strain, Westworld, Jurassic Park and Congo). Timeline
is a fantasy, sci-fi story about a group of contemporary archaeology
students who become trapped in 14th Century France. We can
hardly wait!