ROTTEN TOMATOES: De Niro & Pfeiffer Join Vaughn's "Stardust" Gang

De Niro & Pfeiffer Join Vaughn's "Stardust" Gang

by Scott Weinberg | March 07, 2006

Variety reports on a pretty exciting new project from director Matthew Vaughn ("Layer Cake"). The filmmaker will direct an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "Stardust" for Paramount, and he'll do it with the help of Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Claire Danes, among others, of course.

"Paramount has set Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Charlie Cox and Sienna Miller to star in "Stardust," an adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel to be directed by Matthew Vaughn. Pic begins shooting in the U.K. and Iceland next month.

Story concerns a star-crossed youth from the English village of Wall who tries to win the heart of his true love by searching for a falling star and heading into a magical world where he must deal with a witch and a pirate.

Film will be the first for Vaughn since "Layer Cake," after he dropped out of the third X-Men pic for personal reasons. A majority of shooting will be done in the U.K."

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thadeus_79 writes:
on Mar 07 2006 08:06 AM

Are we entering a fantasyland movie year. I mean I have enjoyed them, but it just shows hollywood follows the pack of other big hits, noone wants to be a maverick.

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dracus writes:
on Mar 07 2006 08:32 AM

..... There was a time when seeing De Niro's name attached to a movie automatically meant excellence. Now we have to wait to find out if it'll be any good. At least De Niro appears to be working with a good team this time.

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ArmyofJuan writes:
on Mar 07 2006 09:33 AM

They better not mess this up. Gaimans stuff is excellent.

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PrecentorEpsilonXVI writes:
on Mar 08 2006 08:40 AM

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Indeed. What's with all the Gaiman-related projects recently anyway? He must have really been sucking up to the hollywood brass.

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frankster62 writes:
on Jun 18 2006 02:50 PM

[b]Filming of Stardust[/b]
I was in Torridon, which is in the Scottish highlands at a hotel, and they were filming this movie while I was there. It was interesting. One thing is for sure, De Niro is not what he use to be, meaning this film can go either way.

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