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Post by latte on May 1, 2018 10:19:39 GMT
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Post by latte on May 1, 2018 10:20:27 GMT
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Post by latte on May 1, 2018 10:21:47 GMT
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Post by latte on May 1, 2018 10:23:42 GMT
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Post by temple01uk on May 1, 2018 10:30:02 GMT
A brief resume from the Jessica Kourkounis website
I am a freelance multimedia journalist and photographer specializing in documentary, editorial and portraiture work. I am best known for my photojournalism but am also building my reputation as an audio producer, film maker and writer. I am a member of IATSE 600, the Cinematographers Union as a Unit Still Photographer. I am a regular contributor to The New York Times and Getty Images. My images have also appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and many others. My radio stories have aired on public media stations across Pennsylvania on shows such as Morning Edition and WHYY's The Pulse. I am available for editorial, set photography, corporate and advertising work.
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Post by NYerBornnbred on May 1, 2018 15:29:17 GMT
Interesting that she keeps including the hashtag #untitledwwiifemaledrivenspyfilm. Seems like Miss Atkin's Army is not the way they're going to go. I wonder why they're being so coy (or indecisive) about the title?
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Post by quasar on May 1, 2018 20:33:19 GMT
Interesting that she keeps including the hashtag #untitledwwiifemaledrivenspyfilm. Seems like Miss Atkin's Army is not the way they're going to go. I wonder why they're being so coy (or indecisive) about the title? Unlikely they're being coy about the title. I think it's similar to headlines and book titles. Often a book's title isn't finalized until the last moment before the initial print run. The selection has to go through more channels than even the manuscript, including marketing and publicity as well as legal, so there are many suggestions, opinions and issues to consider. Sometimes the final edit will cause a shift of focus or emphasis that will reveal the best title. I imagine a film title is similar. Miss Atkins' Army sounds okay, but it's weak as a movie title for several reasons. One, few in today's audience know the name Vera Atkins never mind Miss Atkins so it'll sound like fiction rather than a movie based on real life. Two, her name is Atkins which makes the possessive awkward with the apostrophe at the end and liable to being misplaced. Three, imo, it's a little too precious with the "Miss" and sounds a bit too much like a teacher or camp counselor with her group. Four, it might not fit the end result. For example, screenplay may have focused initially more on Vera than it does now.
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Post by quasar on May 1, 2018 20:57:17 GMT
Jessica Chastain went public today with a female spy action movie of her own. DeadlineVarietySounds similar but in fact quite different, although both are labeled as independent films. Chastain's has a much higher powered cast and will likely have a distributor and a solid budget behind it before it starts filming. More important, however, is that it seems it will be more a derivative of male action films than the Atkins movie, which I'm guessing will be more character driven. It also won't be rooted in real life or the WWII historical context. Stana appears to be happy with the announcement since she retweeted Chastain's post with "Fantastic! Bravo!" Sometimes when there's more than one film in a "specialty" genre, it helps both films. Sometimes it doesn't. Thoughts?
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Post by jnorton45 on May 1, 2018 23:41:35 GMT
Jessica Chastain went public today with a female spy action movie of her own. DeadlineVarietySounds similar but in fact quite different, although both are labeled as independent films. Chastain's has a much higher powered cast and will likely have a distributor and a solid budget behind it before it starts filming. More important, however, is that it seems it will be more a derivative of male action films than the Atkins movie, which I'm guessing will be more character driven. It also won't be rooted in real life or the WWII historical context. Stana appears to be happy with the announcement since she retweeted Chastain's post with "Fantastic! Bravo!" Sometimes when there's more than one film in a "specialty" genre, it helps both films. Sometimes it doesn't. Thoughts? The historical nature of the story is important. Last year there were no fewer than 4 movies revolving around Dunkirk. One of the most interesting aspect to Stana's new project has been the coverage it has gotten in the Indian press. Radhika Apte portrayal of Noor Inayat Khan has gotten a lot of play. Noor is a very heroic figure among Indian population to say nothing of the Middle East and all of the Asian Subcontinent. Sony, the money/distributor behind this project, looks to increase their penetration in this market.
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Post by poppy58 on May 2, 2018 19:27:08 GMT
^^^ That's very nice. Since it appears that the movie is filming, probably in Philadelphia, at this time, how long will it take for a roughly 2 hour film? Maybe 6 weeks with another week for setup in Bulgaria where presumably they are are shooting outside scenes. THEN Stana starts shooting s2 of Absentia in Sophia in late June? Thoughts? Are they shooting the movie in Bulgaria afterall? It would have been so cool if they were shooting it here in Hungary! :(
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Post by alwaysafan on May 2, 2018 19:43:39 GMT
^^^ That's very nice. Since it appears that the movie is filming, probably in Philadelphia, at this time, how long will it take for a roughly 2 hour film? Maybe 6 weeks with another week for setup in Bulgaria where presumably they are are shooting outside scenes. THEN Stana starts shooting s2 of Absentia in Sophia in late June? Thoughts? Are they shooting the movie in Bulgaria afterall? It would have been so cool if they were shooting it here in Hungary! :(Â I thought I read Budapest Hungry.
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Post by temple01uk on May 2, 2018 20:43:54 GMT
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Post by temple01uk on May 4, 2018 8:24:55 GMT
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Post by temple01uk on May 4, 2018 8:28:11 GMT
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Post by quasar on May 5, 2018 19:20:17 GMT
I tried to track down the location of the shoot using the photographer's hashtag #Androssan only to come up with a blank. Just now I realized Kourkounis misspelled it. The correct spelling is in the top caption, Ardrossan, a huge turn-of-the-century estate in the Villanova section of Philly. Gorgeous place and the inspiration for The Philadelphia Story (play and movie starring Katharine Hepburn). In the first few decades of the 1900s, the area was a replica of English gentry life so it should be a perfect location for the SOE headquarters. MainLineNYTInquirer
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Post by latte on May 6, 2018 10:02:18 GMT
I tried to track down the location of the shoot using the photographer's hashtag #Androssan only to come up with a blank. Just now I realized Kourkounis misspelled it. The correct spelling is in the top caption, Ardrossan, a huge turn-of-the-century estate in the Villanova section of Philly. Gorgeous place and the inspiration for The Philadelphia Story (play and movie starring Katharine Hepburn). In the first few decades of the 1900s, the area was a replica of English gentry life so it should be a perfect location for the SOE headquarters. MainLineNYTInquirerI read something on a post by the screenwriter that they were also looking at a project/story from the viewpoint of the actual women whom the Kathryn Hepburn character was based upon in The Philadelphia Story.
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Post by temple01uk on May 6, 2018 20:11:02 GMT
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Post by temple01uk on May 7, 2018 16:57:45 GMT
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Post by latte on May 8, 2018 11:38:08 GMT
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Post by temple01uk on May 9, 2018 12:18:16 GMT
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Post by temple01uk on May 9, 2018 14:31:09 GMT
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Post by temple01uk on May 10, 2018 11:48:33 GMT
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Post by sydauscaskettfan2412 on May 11, 2018 11:31:46 GMT
I thought Id post some interesting tidbits that Ive come across from going through the book of Spymistress. Im not reading it as Ive found it way too intense for me, and Ive also reborrowed it for the 2nd lot of 3 weeks and its time is fast approaching, and Ive also borowed A Life of Secrets, and I havent even started it yet and its due in 2 more weeks. But anyway, here are my findings of Spymistress thus far....:
Chapter 18 , A Year alone, page 135;
Ian fleming said 'document her (Vera) as your permanent Secretary', to Stephenson, who wondered latr if this marked the moment when Fleming dreamed up James Bond and a Secetary named Moneypenny. Bonds alias,007, was used by British Intelligence to denote Germany's diplomatic code in the 1914-18 war.
Vera kept a lowly postion and avoided the attention of officials rounding up foreigners, Mary Stephenson recvalled. Mary had moved to New York and was missed. Mary's letters wer handcarried by recruits senet to work for Bill, whose cable adress was now...Intrepid.... Stephenson was 44, and still looked like a bantamweight boxer he once was.
MID SECTION OF BOOK:
B/W PICS OF THE PEOPLE MENTIONED. INCLUDED IS A PIC OF VERA SMILING, AND HE AUTHOR WILLIAM STGEPHENSON. AND....for those who can remember the 60's show, the Man from U.N.C.L.E.,, starrring David MCallum, and now starrring as Ducky on NCIS....,William Stephenson bears a resemblancee to David McCallum from his U.N.C.L.E days. (well I think he does).
A pic of William Donovan, Chief of Office of Strategic Services, which later became the Central Intelligence Office.
Pic of Krystyna Starbeck, and of Indian princess, Noor Inyat Khan, plus one of Virginia Hall, 'Canadian' correspondent for New York Post.
Pic of susan and Guy d'Aratois, both SOE Agents, and susan provided or corroborated much of the info on Vera, as she was a close personal friend.
PIC OF.....VIOLET SZABO, WHO RESCUED THE .....'WHITE RABBIT'.....(but she was executed at Dauchau on the eve of Allied Victory).
PIC OF....WING COMANDER FORESTFREDERICK EDWARD YEO-THOMAS, THE 'WHITE RABBIT'........
(Ingteresting that Stana has now done 2 different? projects which both have the name of 'White Rabbit', in them.......)
chapter 23 page 175....
'Say White Rabbit and three Blind Mice to Vera, and you ned say no more'. The White Rabbit was the nickname for a 38 year old Englishman F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas, General Manager of the 1939 Molyneux, the great Paris Fashion House. three Blind Mice was the poem code of a shopgirl Violet Szabo, who left school at 15.
page 177 - Vera did her best to get the agents to speak in code messages via BBC as in 'sister Aline wears pink', or 'the cat eats fish this morning' This system was invented by Geroge Begue, the first SOe agent parachuted into France with a wireless transmitter in a suitcase.
(Me syd:- this sounds similar to Castles always or After the Storm re Espo translating message of 'Hows Charlie and Mike', as 'Contineu Mission', ie kill Beckett).
ch 25, page196, first mention of Noor Inayat Khan, often described as an Indian princess, and a talened writre of childrens stories, who parachuted into France and began a long journey to a tragic end, that would prompt speculation that she (too) was betrayed.
page 197, Princess Noor, though grded by instructors as unfit to go into the field, , were sent anyway because their special skills were desperately needed and they proed to be the toughest and most innovative in resisting interrogation under torture.
chap 28, page 223
winston Churchills son, Randolphs Croatian Secretary, Mrdjn Lenka, also his translater, fell in love with randolph. she told william Stephenson years later.
Thats it for now. I find these fascinating.
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Post by sydauscaskettfan2412 on May 12, 2018 12:43:35 GMT
Ok. Here are the rest. I finally managed to get through Spymistress, now I tackle A Life of Secrets...
page 374... Australian Richard 'Dikko' Hughes, who said 'Ive signed nothing, you can prove nothing', his first wife was Jewish. A close friend of Ian Fleming, he later suggested that Flemings 007 should run MOB, Miscellaneous Objectives Bureau, patterned on the thriller writers real life Assault Unit intelligence gathering, command. Fleming, while still the star of naval intelligence, called it his Indecent Assault Unit.
Chapter. 41, page 317, The American Connection.....
"Moneypennny?"
"yes", Vera said into the phone at her home in Winchelsea.
"Can you come over for dinner?"
"Where?"
"New York". Bill Casey, then Director of the CIA, mumbled a date.
The name Moneypenny was a joke between them. Ian Fleming had tried out other names for the submissive Secretary of James Bond, -- Miss Pettard, Flissity Brown, and Dominique Domino, -- then borrowed Miss Moneypenny from The Sett, an unfinished novel by his older brother, Peter. These wer in keeping with the use of cover names, and it seemed to Casey that this suited a woman with several identitied. Her present identity for her life, on the Sussex coast. She was now 75 and a well able to get across the Atlantic for diner at short notice. Wichelsea folk also called her Moneypennny for fun. They live witha history thatis in many ways French, and yet also English. Their local government is the only one of its kind left in England, a jurat appointed by the Mayor and Parish church councillors after the fashion of meedieval NormanFrance, which once ruled here.
page 320.....Behind winchelseas sleepy facade, are clues to the duality of Mis Moneypenny- atkins. There is a house callled Moneysellers. It seems close to the name Moneypenny, as Ian Fleming noted, Moneysellers is a reminder that in 1333, Winchelsea was one of the only 20 towns in Gngland where foreign money could be exchanged. Mulberry trees date from when Winchelsea provided these resources to the Third Battalion of the Cinque Ports Volunteers for the Revolutionary and Napoleanic Wars. Caen stone from France, was used to build gothic arches and ribs for 40 cellars where wines were stored, 6,300 ggallons to a cellar, and , here, Beatrix Potter dedicated Peter Rabbit to her nephew. Ellen Terry, one of the greatest English acrresses, lived in Tower Cottage, "on the ivied wall of the ancient Town Gate", drove visitors around the countryside in a 19th Century governess cart. Winchelsea was the perfect setting for...Agatha Christies Miss Marple, ....and some who visited Vera, thought she suited the part.
Ian Fleming had quoted Winston Churchill in creating James Bond as a 'blunt instrument' outside the law. Vera had reminded Fleming that Bond nd blunt instruments were the weapons of the weak. She said that Bond was popular because he was human. His devices were inspired by SOE 'toys' that sprang from resources so limited that only paupers would bother to turn them into deadly weapons, which was why it was dangerous to talk about them.
Vera died on June 24,2000. William Stephenson was trained in aerial espionage as a British navel fighter pilot in WW2. A respectged historian and expert in covert warfare. He's the author of 16 books, including the best sellers A Man Called Intrepid, Intrepids Last Case, and 90 Minutes at Entebbe.
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Post by jnorton45 on May 12, 2018 14:44:08 GMT
For those looking for a fine series on the same period in the US see Manhattan, 23 episodes. Available on Amazon disks with your subscription or Prime for $2 an episode. www.imdb.com/title/tt3231564/?ref_=nv_sr_4Scarier than any dystopia yet imagined.
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Post by temple01uk on May 12, 2018 15:24:13 GMT
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Post by alwaysafan on May 12, 2018 23:59:10 GMT
I wonder if they are finished with the Philly filming and are done or headed to Budapest or Bulgaria?
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Post by temple01uk on May 13, 2018 9:53:23 GMT
I am not sure if they have completed filming in Philly yet, the production was supposed to move to Budapest afterwards.
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Post by KB1L40 on May 16, 2018 14:16:05 GMT
Unless I missed it, I find it interesting that there have been no pictures of Stana as Vera except for the one on the stairs and possibly blowing out the candles on a cake.
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Post by alwaysafan on May 16, 2018 18:09:55 GMT
Unless I missed it, I find it interesting that there have been no pictures of Stana as Vera except for the one on the stairs and possibly blowing out the candles on a cake. B :-) And Stana hasn’t posted in IG or twitter for a few days. There for awhile it was more than once a day. Maybe they are moving production to Budapest? I am hoping for more BTS. I guess they could be keeping it all a secret .
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