REMINISCENCE ( aka THE JADE EARRING) -- Potential Spoilers

[jo]

We're all set


deadline.com/2019/03/hugh-jackman-rebecca-ferguson-lisa-joy-reminiscence-warner-bros-worldwide-rights-deal-westworld-1202568078/

Warner Bros Lands Worldwide Rights To Lisa Joy-Directed ‘Reminiscence:’ Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson To Star

by Mike Fleming Jr

March 1, 2019 1:47pm

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Reminiscence, the Lisa Joy-directed action thriller that will star Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson. The film marks the directorial debut of Westworld executive producer Joy, who wrote the script. This was the hot package at Berlin, and the film sold in a competitive situation with several studios vying for the rights.


Joy, who wrote the screenplay, will produce with her Kilter Film partner Jonathan Nolan, along with Michael De Luca and Aaron Ryder. Athena Wickham and Elishia Holmes are exec producers. The film is a co-production between Kilter Films, Michael De Luca Productions and FilmNation Entertainment. The film will reunite Joy with frequent Westworld DP Paul Cameron. Principal Photography will take place in New Orleans and Miami beginning in late October, to allow Joy and Nolan to complete work on the HBO show’s third season.


Joy, Nolan
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Reminiscence follows one man’s journey to find the woman he loves after her mysterious disappearance. Jackman stars as Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas. Bannister is an expert in a dangerous occupation — he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets Mae, played by Ferguson. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client’s memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for. An epic story that travels the intimate and infinite world of memory, Reminiscence asks: How far would you go to hold on to the ones you love?

Anyone who has seen the HBO series, on which Joy and Nolan are co-creator/showrunner/directors, has also gotten a preview of Joy’s ability to tell such sprawling, epic (and sometimes future-set) stories on a cinematic scale. Just before Endeavor Content and FilmNation brought the project to market in Hollywood and Berlin (where Joy gave a presentation), Joy eloquently pitched her vision in vivid detail to Deadline, and the buying crowd responded.

Joy and Jackman are repped by WME; Ferguson is ICM Partners and Tavistock Wood.

[mamaleh]

So glad this is a “go.” It looks to be a thrilling sci/fi/noir romance and should provide a great role for HJ.

Ellen

[jo]

While there are elements of sci-fi ( the available technology at that time... and the potential impact of climate changes years hence), hopefully it is not going to be too futuristic that only true sci-fi fans can get excited about. I have a feeling that it may have the sci-fi elements like we had seen in The Prestige ( a more modern technology) - eerie but not incredibly sci-fi. Maybe my associating it with The Prestige stems from the fact that the movie is being co-produced by husband and wife Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy ( who wrote the script of REMINISCENCE and is currently directing TV's Westworld, of which many episodes were co-written by Jonathan and Lisa). Jonathan also co-wrote the script of The Prestige, with brother Chris Nolan.


Dramatic Hugh - check!
Romantic Hugh - check! Already thinking of his scenes with Nicole in Australia
Action-oriented Hugh - check!
Singing Hugh -- NO check

But the character of Rebecca is supposed to have some singing parts


Jo

[jo]

Variety reports on the film project, now that the worldwide distribution rights have been acquired by Warner Bros. They do make reference to the Deadline Exclusive!

variety.com/2019/film/news/warner-bros-buys-hugh-jackman-rebecca-ferguson-thriller-1203153716/

[jo]

Will Rebecca sing herself, unless they change the script?


Jo

[foxie]

Sure looks interestng!

[jo]

For those wanting to know more about the storyline, a previous post is reposted here --

Jan 30, 2019 17:51:15 GMT -5 jo said:

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At last -- a new exciting big film project for Hugh Jackman!!

But awaiting official announcement!


And to co-star Rebecca Ferguson!! Both are action stars, too!

Action/sci-fi/romance... with a female director, with Liza's husband Jonathan Nolan co-producing ( Chris Nolan's brother who co-scripted THE PRESTIGE) !!

Black List script!




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Hot Berlin Pic: ‘Westworld’s Lisa Joy Directs Hugh Jackman…

Breaking News
Lisa Joy To Direct Jackman & Ferguson In Sci-Fi 'Reminisence'

Hot Berlin Pic: ‘Westworld’s Lisa Joy Directs Hugh Jackman & Rebecca Ferguson In Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Reminiscence’

by Mike Fleming Jr

January 30, 2019 9:44am


EXCLUSIVE: As the Sundance deal avalanche abates, it is time to focus on the film packages to be unveiled next week in Berlin. In what instantly becomes a hot property there, Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson are finalizing deals to star this fall in Reminiscence, a film that Westworld executive producer Lisa Joy has scripted. She will make her feature directorial debut.




The film will be unveiled for major studios later this week by Endeavor Content, which is brokering domestic; FilmNation’s Glen Basner will be at the European Film Market to make international deals starting next week. Joy will make the trip to pitch her vision in a theater. Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Michael De Luca and Aaron Ryder will produce a film that is being mounted as a co-production between Kilter Films, Michael De Luca Productions and FilmNation Entertainment.

Principal Photography begins October 21 for a film that will shoot in New Orleans and Miami. This allows Joy and Nolan to complete their work on the third season of their HBO series Westworld.



It is a re-team for Jackman and Ferguson, who worked together on the hit musical The Greatest Showman. The script, which made the Black List several years ago, is complex and layered, but essentially, Jackman will play a private eye who deals in recapturing vivid cherished memories for clients. He becomes vexed by one of those clients (Ferguson). It is set slightly in the future in a Miami that has been changed by global warming, with much of the city submerged underwater.

Joy partners with Nolan on Westworld, which took an old Michael Crichton script and blew it up into an intricately woven world that has fueled two seasons and heads into a third. The world in Reminiscence is just as complex. While she’s stepping behind the camera on a feature for the first time, Joy has been writing and imagining this film for the past five years. “It has been a labor of love and also vision,” she told Deadline. “I know exactly what I want this to be, including all of the action set pieces, and turning Miami into a sunken world. Working on Westworld has been an incredible experience in learning to make something with the scope of a feature on a TV timeline with a budget nowhere near what you would expect for a feature film equivalent.”

Joy, in fact, conceptualized the movie so completely without giving away its spoilers that, in a first for Deadline, I have invited her to pitch her vision here. If you’ve never been pitched a big movie project by a ferociously intelligent, passionate filmmaker, buckle up.


“I’ve always been fascinated by memory and I remember Jonah, when we first started dating, was working on something involving memory. It was early on in our relationship and I was like, damn it, I wanted to do a movie on memory. That was Memento. It was a fascination that took me back years and years. I remember in high school; one of my science teachers was talking about how, when people are having brain surgery and their brains are being operated on and when different nerve endings are stimulated given the electronic impulse, patients having the surgery report having the most vivid memories, while they are under.

Almost as though that electrical stimulation is unlocking some raw date file in their mind, from a moment from long ago that they haven’t thought of, since. Our memories, the way we tend to experience them, are sort of fuzzy around the edges, like a watercolor that has bled into the past and is not totally clear. In this procedure, when people would think back and have this stimulation in their nervous system, the memories that they impact are so immersive and vivid, it was like they were there, again. The smells, the touch, the sound. It wasn’t like they were remembering from a distance, a third party on their own life. It was like they were transported over time, to that very moment.




I was thinking about that phenomenon a lot, while I was writing this piece. I was pregnant, for the first time. It’s such a beautiful and strange moment, and there’s this whir of hormones and feelings you are going through. As I was finishing the first draft, I had my baby daughter, and I remember holding her in my arms. It was that feeling for me where, there is that smell…I remember holding my daughter, this tiny baby in my arms, and I remember smelling her hair. And that precious smell that only babies have, and that evaporates after a while, and you never smell it exactly the same, again. But in a moment when you are smelling it and you’re holding them in that dark room, trying to get them to sleep, and you’re sleep deprived and crazy, but it’s still the most magical moment in your life. And you think, I wish I could bottle this moment, this smell, the feel of their little hands in mine. The feeling that I have, right now, with all my fears and my worries, and my dreams. I wish I could go back to this moment, forever.

There was a lot happening in my life. There was birth; there was family members passing away, and there was this idea of the ephemerality of all these experiences and how, even if you have the happiest of lives, it’s sad at the end. Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away. You live in memory, and wouldn’t it be nice to be able to go back and feel those sensations, again. That’s kind of the underpinning, conceptually, of this film.




Reminiscence posits a world where that technology does exist. And there’s a character named Nick Bannister, played by Hugh Jackman. He is a kind of a P.I. of the mind — think Wolverine meets Humphrey Bogart — and he has a business where, when people want to remember something, they come into his office and he’s almost like a psychologist. All the files from our past are stored in our minds, and the question is, which one do you access? How do you get it to the right moment, the moment you’re looking for. His skill is asking questions and taking people through this lulling experience, where he finds the moments that you desire to reengage with and immerses you back in them. For a small fee.


People come back to remember their youth, their loved ones, their children, the dog that they used to run around with in a field behind their parents’ house in childhood, old lovers, things like this.


One day, a beautiful mysterious woman comes into his office. And she has a very simple request. She lost a set of keys, and she just needs a quick nudge, to remember where she dropped them. That meeting is the beginning of a really epic romance, where they fall madly in love and you just watch the relationship evolve. And then one day the girl, suddenly, goes missing. Nick Bannister is completely bereft, confused and lost, at the loss of his love. He decides he has to find her. He has to get her back.

It turns into a thriller, where, to get the girl, he has to unpack her past. And see different aspects of her personality that he didn’t know before, in order to find her again. This entire thing, the heart of it, is this love story.

It’s wrapped in this very thrilling world of action set pieces that we haven’t seen before. I’m a huge fan of directing action, it’s one of my favorite things. This world is particularly unique, so it lets me do action set pieces that I’ve never seen before. Part of the conceit of this world is, it’s set mostly in Miami, and it’s ten years from now.

For futurism, there tend to be two different types. I love both. One is an iPad store, sleek, gleaming buildings, flying cars, holographs. It’s beautiful but it’s a little cold to the touch. And it’s a little far away feeling from where we are now. Then there is the dystopian, very gritty version of the future, which is also very thrilling to watch. Neither of those is what I’m going for. What I’m going for is the way the future will probably naturally unfold. Buildings don’t change that much over ten year’s time. If you look out the window, it’s probably the same bodega that was there 20 years ago. Cities tend to have an evolutionary pace, all their own.

The one thing that has changed the evolution of this city, as it’s Miami and global warming has made the oceans rise. You see a much changed Miami, where the waters encroach the land itself and the outskirts of the city are flooded. The dry lands that are more inland have become the home of the rich, who have taken over the dry inland part and left the rest of the community to create new communities on the flooded outskirts. The way that this looks onscreen will be beautiful, as though Miami — turned into Venice — meets the floating markets of Thailand. That’s what this culture looks like. I wanted to create a really immersive culture of life and sensuality that’s really appealing. My parents are European, and Asian on the other side. So whenever I would travel I would look at different communities and the way they are often presented with a distanced gaze as though their way of life is apart from ours, and something to be pitied or idolized. To me it’s like, no, this is just life, and it’s beautiful and it’s rich and complicated. And you get the hustle and bustle of what Miami would look like, in those circumstances.



There’s one other element to it. Which struck me when I went to Spain for work. When it gets hot enough in Spain, they have siestas, and they take naps in the middle of the day because the sun is just so unbearable. So I extrapolated that principle for this, and imagined not only a world where the waters have risen, but where the city has essentially become nocturnal. So when the city sun starts to set and the neon lights go on, on Ocean Drive with the waves washing over them, and people commute to and fro in boats, you see school children waking up as the sun goes down, and packing off to school. You see commuters waking up, eating cereal and bagels in the morning, and ferrying themselves off to work.

It’s an inverted day rather than a night dynamic and that itself creates really interesting opportunities for action set pieces that, typically, when you’re in the chase or meeting the villain, it happens at night on a dark and gloomy street. Here, it happens literally at high noon. There’s a touch of that Western aspect, where the sun is beating down on you and our heroes are winded, sweaty and looking through the city that is essentially empty save for the people who are the denizens of the night. That’s the general world we’re looking at.



A little bit about the characters and the love story. The beating heart of this, is the love story. For me, there’s a reference within the film, but it’s loosely inspired by that myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus is this man who’s a wonderful singer, and the love of his life, Eurydice, dies. She’s bitten by a snake and goes down to hell and Orpheus’ grief is so extreme that he descends into hell, of his own volition, to try and barter with the devil and get his love back. And the song that he sings, is so beautiful and pure of heart, that it even moves the devil himself. He says, you can have your life back, you can take Eurydice back to the world, on one condition: don’t look back. As you’re descending up to the mortal realm, you can’t look back at her. The struggle is, will he or will he not look back. It started me thinking about love, itself. Both my philosophy on love, and there’s this meta-philosophy about film.

For me, love, and I married my love and we’ve been married a long time, but love is an ever changing thing. You fall in love with one person, but that’s not who they are, entirely. An entire person takes awhile to discover. It’s not just the glossy exterior. There are regrettable moments, from their past and that will happen in the future. There are flaws and darkness, along with the light and the beauty. For me, true love means not just seeing the good and saying I love you, but rather seeing all of it, the entire portrait of a human being, flaws and all, and saying, you. I love you. The greatest act of love is seeing, unconditionally, and accepting. In this movie, in order for Bannister to be reunited with his love, that’s exactly what he has to do. He has to learn to see her.

For me, in terms of film and TV, and it’s something I think about a lot on Westworld, it’s the ideas of tropes in femininity and masculinity. Film has this way of being able to say, push closer. Look at this person, fully. Don’t just look at who they should be, or who society thinks they should be. Try to embrace all of them. For me that’s really important for the women and the male characters. A lot of time in thrillers and any kind of major genre films, the women are either the good girl, a little bit passive and waiting around for love. Or they’re the bad girl, that comes with sexuality and all sorts of things that are thought of as more risqué. And the truth is, that’s complete nonsense. Women have just as many multitudes as men. And men have more dimension to them than we are usually allowed in film. This odyssey in love is seeing characters, fully. Both the women and the men.


That’s why casting was critical for these really challenging roles. For the woman, you have to be the romantic hero, the siren, the girl who needs saving, the girl with secrets. All twists and changes. While Bannister is discovering that about the woman, he’s going through his own changes and you see different sides of him. He starts just as the laconic veteran of a war who’s a bit closed off. He opens up into this emotional creature with this woman. He goes through these twists and turns within his own arc that take him through from hero to villain and potentially back again. And you have to be with all of these characters and totally understand their emotional landscape, throughout.


All the years I was writing this, I would see the scenes fully in my mind and I was directing it and planning the set pieces and drawing the artwork for the world. The one person who was always in my mind, from the first day, was Hugh Jackman. It’s this crazy love story and it’s totally unreal to me. I drew his costume on him, I have all these sketches and I thought, it has to be him. This is a man who, whatever character he inhabits, whether it’s in Prisoners, or The Greatest Showman, he has a range that’s like that of a character actor. You always believe his characters. He has so much heart. Even if he’s playing a flawed character. You can just see that heart underneath that and you forgive him because you see in his flaws, your own.


Then you couple that with, my God, he’s Wolverine. The most charismatic, handsomest movie star. The idea he’s all those things combined, with the sensitivity and the action, the sheer physicality to pull off this physically demanding role. He was all I could picture. I didn’t talk to anyone else. I sent him an email and went out to meet him and we talked about the script. I stayed so long, they were like, you want to have dinner here? We were in his living room that long. I decided to leave him to dinner with his family and not encroach anymore. It was an instant connection in that way. He totally viscerally understood and inhabited that character.


I just recorded some voiceover with him and it was so moving to see him say these words that I’d imagined in my head so long. The life he brought to them was even better and more nuanced than I had imagined. That’s my lead.


Once I started talking to Hugh, it was, who do I find for May, his romantic partner, this mysterious and elusive woman? For me, these films are always about the woman. It has to be someone who, you want to be her, you want to be her friend, you understand her, even if she’s doing something morally compromised. When I started watching Rebecca Ferguson, I was blown away. In very intense scenes with huge movie stars, my eyes would drift to her because she was this powerful core in the center of this whirlwind film. She has this intelligence to her eyes and her performance speaks volumes. You just want to keep looking closer to figure out who she is. She’s got this timelessness to her performances that defies expectations and she’s beautiful and sexy. But that is literally just the tip of the iceberg.


She’s riveting and you can see all these emotions, roiling underneath her surface. One of my favorite actresses is Lauren Bacall, especially in To have And Have Not. I thought, who’s the actress today who could do that line, “You know how to whistle, don’t ya?” Who is that person who can have every man, woman and child lean forward and just stop breathing for a second? For me, that’s Rebecca Ferguson. Then, unbelievably, this builds into a love connection where my emails are now just filled with the back and forth with Rebecca Ferguson, where we are finishing each other’s sentences when we talk. It’s a really great creative match, and they have great chemistry. They worked together before, and I thought, I want to see more of you guys together. I want this to be the main story and now it can be.”

Joy and Jackman are repped by WME; Ferguson is repped by ICM Partners and Tavistock Wood.

The director is a fan of Hugh Jackman !!

And Hugh kept mum about this possibility!


Jo

[jo]

Further confirmation that REMINISCENCE will start filming on October 21, as Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan's commitment on current TV show WESTWORLD will be completed on October 4.


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The series is showrun by Lisa Joy (Black Cat) and Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight) with J.J. Abram’s production company Bad Robot producing. Joy is expected to write and direct her feature film debut Reminiscence for Warner Bros., a romantic science fiction film starring Hugh Jackman (Logan, The Prestige) and Rebecca Ferguson (Dune, Mission: Impossible – Fallout) which will begin filming on October 21st.

[jo]

On the greenlight and funding of the film project --


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Warner Bros is looking like the favorite to capture King Richard, a spec script by Zach Baylin that has Will Smith poised to play Richard Williams, the father of Venus and Serena Williams. This deal will fall in the $60 million budget range, making it as big an auction as we’ve heard of this year, this side of the Lisa Joy-directed package Reminiscence, a film that Warner Bros also landed that has Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson starring. In both cases, Warner Bros essentially guaranteed green lights and agreed to budgets and production start dates for later this year.

Maybe this is a controversial opinion -- but while indies provide artistic fulfillment as projects, the lack of major (studio or major distributor) backing lets even potentially good movies down. We still have to hear who and when BAD EDUCATION will be released. True, Hugh indie-type movies seem to be backed now by packaging and sales support from ENDEAVOR CONTENT ( affiliated with his talent agency WME) but it doesn't necessarily mean that strong releases are guaranteed. Glad that Warner Bros picked up REMINISCENCE.

Of course the recent trends of studios giving up territory to streaming services is changing the landscape. But who really wants to see a movie on a home screen TV?


Jo

[jo]

The husband and wife team behind the TV series Westworld and are co-producing REMINISCENCE, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, have signed a MEGA TV deal to develop creative material for AMAZON!

deadline.com/2019/04/jonathan-nolan-lisa-joy-igiant-tv-overall-deal-amazon-studios-1202589231/

There is mention that the 3rd season for Westworld will start filming in spring 2020. Nolan will be directing, but does this mean that filming for Reminiscene would have been completed then, with Lisa eventually wrapping her post-production?

Excerpts --

Joy is directing her debut feature film Reminiscence, distributed by Warner Bros, starring Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson. Joy wrote the script, which landed on The Black List, and produces with her Kilter Films partner Nolan, Michael De Luca and Aaron Ryder. The film is co-produced by Warner Bros, Kilter Films, Michael De Luca Productions and FilmNation Entertainment.

[jo]

Back to Acting

The music tour ends on October 20, 2019 in Mexico City.

Will filming start without Hugh Jackman initially? It is originally scheduled for an October 21 start. Maybe principal photography will start a little later?


Jo

[jo]

variety.com/2019/film/news/thandie-newton-lisa-joy-reminiscence-westworld-1203311680/

HOME Film News
August 23, 2019 12:05PM PT

Thandie Newton Reteams With ‘Westworld’s’ Lisa Joy on ‘Reminiscence’ (EXCLUSIVE)

By Justin Kroll




Following her Emmy win for her performance on “Westworld,” Thandie Newton is joining the feature directorial debut of the show’s co-creator.

Sources tell Variety that Newton is set to join Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson in Warner Bros.’ “Reminiscence,” directed by “Westworld’s” Lisa Joy.

WB acquired the rights to the package after this year’s Berlin Film Festival. Joy penned the script and will also produce with her Kilter Film partner Jonathan Nolan, along with Michael De Luca and Aaron Ryder. Athena Wickham and Elishia Holmes are exec producers. The film is a co-production of Kilter Films, Michael De Luca Productions and FilmNation Entertainment. Production will take place in New Orleans and Miami beginning in late October, allowing Joy and Nolan to complete work on “Westworld’s” third season at HBO.


The plot and details on who Newton will be playing are being kept under wraps.

Newton is currently starring in “Westworld,” and has received a slew of accolades for her role as Maeve Millay. Among them are two Golden Globe nominations (for Seasons 1 and 2), one Emmy win (for Season 2) and another Emmy nomination (for Season 1). Season 3 bows in 2020.

She is repped by Untitled Entertainment, WME and Independent Talent Group in the U.K.

[jo]

[jo]

Westworld's Thandie Newton Joins Reminiscence


By James White | Posted 15 hours ago


It's been a while since we've heard much progress on Westworld co-showrunner Lisa Joy's sci-fi film Reminiscence. That's because she's been hard at work on the show's third season, but she's recruited one of the series' stars, Thandie Newton, to join the movie's cast.

Newton joins Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson in the cast for the film, which is set in a future where the oceans have risen and much of the population of Miami has switched to a nocturnal schedule. This is also a world where people such as Jackman's Nick Bannister – who Joy describes as a "PI of the mind" – uses technology to dig into people's memories in order to help them with problems. When a mysterious woman (Ferguson) arrives in his office seeking help with lost keys, the stage is set for an epic romance, one cut short when she vanishes.


Nick will have to unpack his lover's past to find her, facing danger along the way... We don't yet know how Newton's character will fit into the story (which was also scripted by Joy), but she'll be heading for the shoot in Miami and New Orleans in late October, the schedule set so that Joy can finish up her duties on Westworld before focusing on the film.
Westworld will be back on our screens next year.

Sources Links
Variety

[jo]

Have they retitled REMINISCENCE as THE JADE EARRING?

Production Weekly has been reporting it as "REMINISCENCE (w/t THE JADE EARRING)" for a few weeks now...but is it just a code name ( as film projects sometimes do have, such as when they were filming LOGAN, IIRC).

www.productionweekly.com/

REMINISCENCE (w/t JADE EARRING)

In the meantime - casting calls/project crew calls have started --

www.projectcasting.com/casting-calls-acting-auditions/warner-bros-movie-starring-hugh-jackman-is-now-hiring-dancers/

Home Casting Calls Warner Bros. Movie Starring Hugh Jackman is Now Hiring Dancers



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Warner Bros. Movie Starring Hugh Jackman is Now Hiring Dancers
By Project Casting -
September 18, 2019
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Warner Bros. new movie ‘The Jade Earring‘ starring Hugh Jackman is now hiring choreographers.

Casting directors are now hiring actors, models, and talent to work on scenes filming this October through January 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Producers are seeking the following types:


Choreographer: Seeking submissions for an EXPERIENCED choreographer (18+) to work with a cast member for a sexy nightclub scene.

About “The Jade Earring”:


Principal filming will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana and Miami, Florida starting in October. Hugh Jackman will portray a veteran living in a future Miami flooded by rising seas who offers clients the chance to relive any memory. He becomes involved romantically with Rebecca Ferguson’s character, who is linked to a series of violent crimes.

How to apply:

We are excited to announce our new show “THE JADE EARRING” starring Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson!! This action feature will film in the Greater New Orleans area from October though January.


Choreographer: Seeking submissions for an EXPERIENCED choreographer (18+) to work with a cast member for a sexy nightclub scene.
Rate: TBD
Please email the following to [e-mail]
• CURRENT photo(s) of yourself
• Legal name
• Phone number
• List choreography experience!
• Use “CHOREOGRAPHER” in the subject line!
**PHOTO SUBMISSION RULES:
1). You should be the only person in the photo.
2). Please face the camera.
3). Only clear and well-lit photos will be considered.
4). Absolutely NO filters!
5). Inappropriate photos will NOT be considered!
*** You do NOT have to be registered with Central Casting to work on this production! ***
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Please do not apply, if you are not local or if you do not fit the description.
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[jo]

Casting calls for REMINISCENCE ( aka The Jade Earring) --

www.leadcastingcall.com/now-casting-reminiscence-starring-hugh-jackman-and-rebecca-ferguson/

physically close and affectionate poses...

The script calls for some deeply romantic and passionate scenes, hence the above description of the requirement for the Stand-Ins


JO

[jo]

There is an important male antagonist role in the storyline. I wonder who they will cast for it?

I am hoping it would be Liev Schreiber, as his pairing with Hugh in XMEN ORIGINS:WOLVERINE was excellent! Also, it seems that when the storyline was being put together by Mangold et al ( with inputs from Hugh) for LOGAN, they were considering a return of Victor Creed ( as portrayed by Liev) but it did not pan out.

Jo

[jo]

More casting calls --

[jo]

More detailed CASTING CALLS --


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To portray -- Police officers/cocktail waitresses/"downtrodden" people/Reporters

[jo]

How Hugh is looking these days --

I could be wrong --

but I am getting more and more convinced that he is developing the look for REMINISCENCE ( aka TJE). I think I even know when the look will likely come in the storyline.


Jo

[jo]

Another photo ( Newark) --

http://instagram.com/p/B3SwZtLJ1wA

[jo]

New casting call --

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New Orleans Film Projects site --

www.filmneworleans.org/for-filmmakers/current-productions/

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Jade Earring

Production Type: Feature Film

Dates: 10/28/2019 – 1/24/2020

Email: [e-mail]

It seems Hugh will have at least a week break before principal photography? But will he be involved in pre-prod activity before actual filming starts?

Also, we don't know yet when Miami filming will take place.


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It looks like pre-production has been underway actively. Part is the session involving couples which were done in early October.

From Facebook --

World Entertainment Resource Company LLC
September 27 at 2:05 AM ·

Hugh Jackman’s ‘The Jade Earring’ Casting Call for Couples

Warner Bros. new movie ‘The Jade Earring‘ starring Hugh Jackman is now casting couples for a camera test.
Casting directors are now hiring actors, models, and talent to work on Wednesday, October 2nd or Thursday, October 3rd in St. Rose, Louisiana.

Producers are seeking the following types:

KISSING COUPLE: Seeking submissions for a COUPLE (18+) to lightly kiss on camera for a camera test. This camera test will give the director an idea of how she wants to format the scenes during filming.

About “The Jade Earring”:
Principal filming will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana and Miami, Florida starting in October. Hugh Jackman will portray a veteran living in a future Miami flooded by rising seas who offers clients the chance to relive any memory. He becomes involved romantically with Rebecca Ferguson’s character, who is linked to a series of violent crimes.

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More casting calls as filming is beginning to take shape --

Central Casting
3 days ago

*** "THE JADE EARRING" – Greater New Orleans, LA - Tentative Date October, 31 (Possibility of change) ***

RATE: TBD higher

We are collecting submissions for MUSICIANS interested in working on the Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson project! At this time, we are only looking for the following instruments: Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Bass, and Drums.
You will MIME playing your instrument in the scene!

Please email the following to [e-mail]
• CURRENT photo(s) of yourself AND your instrument!
• Legal name
• Phone number
• Sizes (height, weight, coat/chest, dress, pant, shoe)
• Tattoos (if applicable)
• Use "MUSICIAN" in the subject line