BBC - Movies -news article - High Noon

		Iron Lady, Silver Screen Hold onto your handbags. Buoyed up by the success of The Queen, Pathé has teamed up with the BBC to make a movie about another formidable figure from the British headlines. That's right, it's Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister and rigidly coiffed iron lady of UK politics. According to Variety, the script (written by Brian Fillis) will focus on the 17 days leading up to the Falklands War in 1982. The big question, of course, is who will play Maggie? Helen Mirren again? Judi Dench? Or Robin Williams in drag?

		Wanted: Angelina Jolie Speaking of lethal females, we hear that Angelina Jolie has taken a break from scarfing up Cambodian orphans to star in Wanted, an action thriller for Universal. Old Bouncy-Castle-Lips will play an assassin in the movie, which stars James McAvoy as a trainee killer investigating his dad's death. Morgan Freeman co-stars in the film, which Timur Bekmambetov is directing. Jolie is also appearing in Clint Eastwood's latest drama, The Changeling.

		Brad Pitt Investigates Meanwhile Jolie's other half, Brad Pitt, is set to star in an Americanised movie version of the British TV series State Of Play. Universal has handed the reins of the project to Kevin McDonald, director of The Last King of Scotland. Pitt plays a journalist investigating the murder of a US congressman's mistress. Naturally, he uncovers a massive conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of.. oh, whatever. "I wanted to do something that tackles the way we as a society in America and Europe learn what's going on, and how much we can trust newspapers and the nightly news", Macdonald told Variety.

		Levinson Lampoons Hollywood Robert De Niro, Catherine Keener and Robin Wright Penn will star in What Just Happened?, a Hollywood comedy from Barry Levinson. De Niro is playing a desperate movie producer in the film, which will feature Player-style cameos from such A-list stars as Bruce Willis and Sean Penn. Stanley Tucci, John Turturro and Kristen Stewart are also appearing, though not as themselves, according to Hollywood Reporter. It's Levinson's first movie as director since 2006's somewhat floppy comedy Man Of The Year, which hasn't even been released over here. Seems like Barry's got some resentment at Hollywood to get out of his system...

		Taymor Fights For Final Cut And finally... word reaches us of a classic Hollywood tussle between director and producer over at Revolution studios. Apparently big boss Joe Roth has recut the forthcoming Beatles musical Across the Universe without informing the film's director, Julie Taymor. Naturally, she's a bit grumpy about this treatment, and according to the New York Times she is considering taking her name off the movie altogether. The film, a 1960s love story set to Beatles choons, stars Evan Rachel Wood and features cameos from Bono and Eddie Izzard.