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Jan. 8th, 2007 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badseed1980So today my news screening at work turned up some news by chance that made me go SQUEEE!
Yay!!!!!
MCKELLEN'S OTHER FANTASY
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -- Sir Ian McKellen, best known for playing Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, has signed on for another fantasy.
He will voice the narrator role in Stardust, whose cast includes Claire Danes, Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Production wrapped in the fall. McKellen is recording his part during post-production before Stardust's July 27 release date via Paramount Pictures.
The film centres on a young man who promises his beloved he will retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the Faerie realm, where he encounters witches, goblins, gnomes, talking animals and evil trees.
Matthew Vaughn directs from an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel, which was published a year after the story debuted in 1997 as a four-issue DC Comics miniseries.
McKellen, a two-time Oscar nominee for his roles in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Gods and Monsters, appeared in two of the biggest hits of 2006: The Da Vinci Code and X-Men: The Last Stand.
Yay!!!!!
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Date: 2007-01-08 02:15 pm (UTC)Gods and Monsters
Date: 2007-01-08 03:16 pm (UTC)Re: Gods and Monsters
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Date: 2007-01-08 09:12 pm (UTC)I loved Mirrormask, and Neverwhere wasn't bad at all. I loved the book of Stardust (I have the fabulous graphic novel version), and am dying to see how this turns out.
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Date: 2007-01-08 10:18 pm (UTC)Though the Serenity graphic novel was quite horrid.