Carey Mulligan joins THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC
Hollywood’s newest It Girl, Carey Mulligan, has signed on for her next project – THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC. Mulligan is currently filming the WALL STREET sequel with Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf. The film world has been a-buzz about her star turn in AN EDUCATION since it first hit this year’s Sundance Film Festival and subsequently won the Audience Award. Mulligan is now set to star in THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC, a British film to be directed by Terry Loane.
The script for the film was penned by Simon Aboud, a former advertising executive. It made this year’s Brit List (the UK version of the Black List of hot, but unproduced screenplays). The film will also star Tom Wilkinson (MICHAEL CLAYTON, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND), Christopher Ecclestone (recently of AMELIA and G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA, but also an accomplished British actor), Mackenzie Crook (SOLOMON KANE), and Joanna Lumley.
The film revolves around children's author Bella Brown (Mulligan). Bella lives an extremely ordered life, only venturing out of her home to work at her library. She’s socially cut off from the world around her, and has no friends or family to change that. But then things do change, in the form of Billy, a “hopelessly messy inventor.” He turns her world upside down, and I suppose wacky romance inevitably ensues.
The Playlist has reviewed the original script, which apparently placed less of an emphasis on Bella and Billy’s relationship. That draft spent more time with Bella and her cantankerous neighbor Alfie and his cook Vernon. They also compare the film to AMELIE, saying it stays “just the right side of quirkiness.” They also think the film could be an awards contender, so I am anxious to see how Mulligan channels her dramatic star power into something a little more whimsical.
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