It's been a very slow week so far, people, so the only thing I have for you today are the first pictures from the sets of the period set biopic movie
IN LIKE FLYNN which shows a rather unknown and yet very interesting and adventurous side of famous movie star Errol Flynn
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| Thomas Cocquerel plays the lead role in the movie |
played in the movie by
Thomas Cocquerel! Out next year it will also star
Clive Standen, William Moseley, Callan Mulvey, David Wenham and
Costas Mandylor!
FROM AN ADVENTURER TO A HOLLYWOOD STARThe biopic depicts Flynn's roust-about early life in Australia, before he became an internationally famed celebrity. In those days he was an adventurer, opium smuggler, gambler, street fighter, womanizer, and gold prospector. The film, based on Flynn's early autobiography "Beam
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| Right to left: Mulvey, Moseley, Cocquerel and Standen |
Ends" was written for the screen by
Large and
Luke Flynn, who found the inspiration as a result of their travels through Australia in the footsteps of Luke's iconic grandfather. The beginning takes Flynn into the jungles of Papua New Guinea in 1930, where he discovers a map on
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| Clive Standen is almost unrecognisable in his new role |
a dead prospector that he believes will lead to a fortune in gold. He then returns to the Depression-era Sydney, rounds up a ragtag crew, steals a yacht from Chinese Opium smugglers and sets sail for Guinea, encountering drunken cowboys, corrupt cops, local thugs and Chinese pirates along the way.
