Amusingly uncouth in this week’s Flushed Away, all the latest Andy Serkis news was covered on the release of The Prestige (still in theatres). To keep up to date, check out his info-packed website.
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News: Andy Serkis
November 10, 2006The actor best known for his superb turn as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings is a busy boy these days. After his turn as David Bowie’s sidekick in this week’s The Prestige, his versatile voice will next crop up in next month’s Aardman animation Flushed Away, alongside The Prestige co-star Hugh Jackman, and has plenty more films in the works. He will soon crop up as the sinister Interrogator in the timely Kafkaesque thriller Rendition (which has a great production blog packed with information), before shifting to childrens’ fantasy for Inkheart, an adaptation of the popular Cornelia Funke novel starring Paul Bettany and Brendan Fraser, due 2008.
Serkis is also set to make his feature film directorial debut with Freezing Time, based on the life of pioneering 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge and described as “The tumultuous life of the Godfather of Cinema, his collaboration and conflict with the Governor of California, his trial for the murder of his wife’s con-man lover, and his relentless pursuit of the art of motion pictures”. He will be follwing that with another directing project, an adaptation of the autobiography of Stephen Smith, Addict, a tale of 20 years of drug addiction, crime and a slow descent into poverty and madness.
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