His latest starring role is in The Railway Man, a haunting, fact-based drama, from acclaimed Australian director Jonathan Teplitzky, which co-stars Nicole Kidman (as Lomaxs wife) and Jeremy Irvine (as the young Lomax). Starring: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine. Decades after World War II, a still-shattered soldier unexpectedly falls in love and sees a bizarre coincidence bring his past back into focus. Skarsgård will play Kidman's colleague while Sanada will portray Firth's former tormentor, with the production set to lens in Thailand and Australia. 2013 Maturity rating: M 1h 47m Movies Based on Real Life. Cast C Colin Firth Eric N Nicole Kidman Patti S Stellan Skarsgrd Finlay J Jeremy Irvine Young Eric H Hiroyuki Sanada Nagase T Tanroh Ishida Young Nagase M Michael MacKenzie Sutton J Jeffrey. Regardless of how successful they are, Firth always seems to emerge triumphant (or unscathed). 2013 Maturity Rating: 16+ 1h 47m Movies Based on Books. His wife was clearly his rock facing the press at the San Sebastian Film Festival, she succumbs to just that one tearful moment.
Years later, Lomax meets a woman on a train (Kidman) who is determined to rid Eric of his demons and recruits a wartime colleague who organises for Eric to confront his tormentor, Nagase. Eric Lomaxs struggle with hatred is the subject of The Railway Man, which stars Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman and is directed by Australias Jonathan Teplitzky.
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Production has now kicked off in Scotland with two more familiar faces in Stellan Skarsgård and Hiroyuki Sanada (" The Last Samurai") rounding out the film's cast.Īdapted by Frank Cottrell Boyce (" 24 Hour Party People"), the film will follow the true story of Lomax (to be played by both Irvine and Firth), a Scottish second lieutenant who was captured by the Japanese in Singapore during the war and shipped off to a camp in Thailand, where he suffered terrible tortures and was forced to help build the infamous bridge over the River Kwai. The extras in new Colin Firth movie The Railway Man walked off the set on the last day of shooting after spending 13 hours pushed around in the heat with no food for less than half of minimum wage. Fresh off his well-received, Matthew Goode-led drama " The Burning Man," helmer Jonathan Teplitzky has set up his biggest project yet with the adaptation of Eric Lomax's prisoner-of-war retribution tale " The Railway Man" starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman (who replaced a suddenly busy Rachel Weisz) and Jeremy Irvine (" War Horse").
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