《大侦探波洛》系列根据阿加莎·克里斯蒂小说改编,讲述了赫尔克里·波洛和伙伴黑斯廷斯探长、莱蒙女士一同破获一起起复杂案件的故事。第二季共十集,每集独立讲述一个探案故事。在“悬崖山庄奇案”中,美丽的巴克利小姐被相继三起命案包围。“戴面纱的女郎”中,波洛被一位匿名女士召见,她的面纱背后藏着意想不到的秘密。“矿藏之谜”中,一名男子向银行出售了标注着银矿位置的地图,接着红龙赌场就发生了命案。“康沃尔谜案”中,一名妇女认为自己的生命处于危险之中。“德文海姆先生失踪案”,银行家离奇失踪,波洛接受赌注展开调查。“双重罪恶”中,一名年轻女子丢失了一批珍贵的微缩画。“廉价公寓的秘密”中,政府最高机密被盗。“首相绑架案”中,英国首相突遭绑架。“西方之星”中,著名电影明星的心爱钻石不翼而飞。“斯泰尔斯庄园奇案”中,坐拥巨额家产的英格尔索普太太离奇死亡。大侦探波洛在重重迷雾中抽丝剥茧,将凶手缉拿归案。。John Ruskin是英国维多利亚时代的艺术家、诗人、建筑师、思想家,还扶持培养了一批年轻艺术家,不过成为社会新闻的却是他与Effie Gray的婚姻,两人结婚6年之后Effie要求中止婚姻,理由是两人“从未真正成为夫妻”,这桩官司成为一时谈资。John Ruskin承认两人从没上过床,但为自己辩护说妻子的“某种状况”破坏了他的激情。Effie Gray离婚后,嫁给了受John Ruskin重视提拔的画家John Everett Millais。据艾玛·汤普森说,这部新片将从两人的新婚之夜开始,通过John Ruskin的经历和性格来解开这个谜团。
2011.08.17.达科塔取代西尔莎成为《Effie》女主角.
Dakota Fanning replacing Saoirse Ronan in Emma Thompson's 'Effie'
August 16
Source: Deadline
Just last November, one Casting Tidbits update revealed The Lovely Bones star Saoirse Ronan landed the title role in Effie, a biopic about Effie Gray, the wife of English art critic John Ruskin, who became entangled in a famous Victorian love triangle. Now Deadline reports Dakota Fanning will star in the period drama from writer/actres****a Thompson which chronicles the strange romance, or lack thereof, between Gray and Ruskin. Despite her beauty, Ruskin was said to be disgusted with Gray's body, did not consummate the marriage and annulled it, allowing her to marry Ruskin's protégé John Everett Millais.Though Orlando Bloom was once attached to play Millais, apparently Tom Sturridge (Pirate Radio) has stepped into the role. In addition, Thompson will also star in the film as Lady Eastlake, who takes Effie under her wing when it becomes clear the union was destroying the young woman. Her husbandGreg Wise (Johnny English) will play Ruskin while Julie Walters (Harry Potter franchise) and Derek Jacobi (The King's Speech) will play his parents. Finally, Edward Fox (Gandhi) is in talks to play Eastlake's husband Sir Charles a man who was not only fed up with Ruskin and his radical ideas, but also the main patron of the Royal Academy which held sway over what constituted fine art.
Richard Laxton (An Englishman in New York) is directing the film which begins shooting in Scotland on October 17th with shooting to follow in London and Venice as well. The cast has been shuffled on this project for awhile with Carey Mulligan once attached to the title role as well, but a copyright infringement claim held up the film, which resulted in scheduling conflicts for the previously attached cast members. Producer Don Rosenfeld says, "It’****a Thompson’s first original script after doing several fine adaptations, and it gets to the heart of Victorian England." Though this sounds a bit more along the lines of her work on Sense and Sensibility as opposed to Nanny McPhee, her work on the page should make for a great British drama down the road.。