Keira Knightley

News and Notes

News and NotesUSA Today is reporting Wally West will race into the New 52 Universe later this Spring in The Flash Annual #3 which follows the confirmation that Stephanie Brown will also make her first New 52 appearance in Batman: Eternal #3

Variety is reporting that A24 has purchased the distribution rights to Laggies after its premiere at Sundance this weekend. The film starring Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Sam Rockwell should see release later this summer

The Playlist has a review for writer/director Richard Linklater‘s Boyhood starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette which was filmed over the course of 12 years and should receive at least a limited theatrical release from IFC Films later this year

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

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Jack Ryan: Shadow RecruitIt’s been more than a decade since the last movie based on Tom Clancy‘s thinking man’s action hero Jack Ryan opened in theaters. Far from a box office bomb The Sum of All Fears still failed to relaunch the franchise with Ben Affleck in the starring role. 11 years later Hollywood tries again with Chris Pine taking over the role in a Jack Ryan origin story that is the first of the five films to not be based off one of Clancy’s novels.

Although it plays with the timing of various important events, the screenplay remains close to Ryan’s origins from the Clancy novels. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit offers a quick look at the series of events that led him from earning a Doctorate in Economics to his stint in the Marine Corps and his eventual injury and recruitment into the CIA by Thomas Harper (Kevin Costner). The film also spends quite a bit of time developing the relationship between Ryan and Cathy (Keira Knightley), a phsycial therapist earning her medical degree who helps in his recovery and rehabilitation following the helicopter crash that nearly left him paralyzed.

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Keira Knightley is Bazaar but Beautiful

Keira Knightley - Harper's Bazaar UK (February 2013)

For the February issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK cover star Keira Knightley discusses feminism, why she quit Twitter after only 12 hours, her new film Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, dealing with a fully male cast when she is the only woman cast in several of her movies, the need for more female directors and possibly directing herself down the line. You can find the pics from her cover shoot inside.

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