'QUEEN OF THE DESERT' FIRST PICTURES AND CLIP
NICOLE KIDMAN & DAMIAN LEWIS
And your visual treat for today are the first pictures from Werner Herzog's upcoming new epic drama QUEEN OF THE DESERTbringing us the first look on Nicole Kidman, Damian Lewis, James Franco and Robert Pattinson in the sprawling epic story. The film had its premier at this year's Berlin Film Festival (where it received mostly negative reviews) and should hit European cinemas this Autumn although it still doesn't have a USA opening date.
EXPLORER AND WRITER
Filmed in Morocco QUEEN OF THE DESERT is a historical biopic and a chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveller, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century who is credited with helping to catalyse the creation of the Middle East. Damian Lewis is Lt. ColonelCharles Doughty Wylie, an unhappily married British soldier who starts a turbulent affair with Bell between 1913 and 1915, before he was killed in active duty at Gallipoli.
Filmed in Morocco QUEEN OF THE DESERT is a historical biopic and a chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveller, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century who is credited with helping to catalyse the creation of the Middle East. Damian Lewis is Lt. ColonelCharles Doughty Wylie, an unhappily married British soldier who starts a turbulent affair with Bell between 1913 and 1915, before he was killed in active duty at Gallipoli.