There’s a remake being planned of Sleuth, Anthony Shaffer’s play about an author who hatches a cunning scheme to off his wife’s lover. The first film version starred Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine as the author and lover respectively. In the proposed Kenneth Branagh version, Michael Caine is going to be the writer and Jude Law is going to be the lover. Interesting, huh, particularly given that Law took Caine’s role in the remake of Alfie as well.
He’s got himself a nice little earner there.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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