Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Resistance

10/7/10 - Andrea Riseborough, Tom Wlaschiha and Michael Sheen have signed to star in Amit Gupta’s debut feature, Resistance, based on Owen Sheers' World War II novel.  Sheen will play a secret service agent.  The movie is set in an alternative 1944 where Russia has fallen to Nazi Germany and the D-Day landings have failed. With Britain partly occupied by German forces, a group of Welsh villagers wake to discover that their husbands have mysteriously disappeared.  Riseborough will play a young farmer's wife whose husband is one of the missing men.  The script has been penned by Gupta and Sheers for the big screen and has secured backing from Munich-based Square One Entertainment and the Film Agency of Wales, the latter having bankrolled the movie's development also.  Brit indie producer Richard Holmes is producing the movie alongside Amanda Faber, with Richard Staniforth as exec producer. It is set to start shooting October 18 in Wales for six weeks.

3/5/09 - The British company Big Rich Films has optioned Owen Sheers' alternate-universe World War II novel Resistance for the big screen, Variety reported.  Amit Gupta will write and direct the movie, which is set in an alternate 1944 in which Russia has fallen to Nazi Germany and the D-Day landings have failed. With Britain now half-occupied by German forces, the women in an isolated Welsh border valley awake one morning to discover all their husbands have mysteriously disappeared. Richard Holmes will produce the project, while Sheers will co-write the script with Gupta.

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