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James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by NickE 25.10.14 14:18
[size=60]James Nesbitt: The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case[/size]
Oct 25, 2014 10:00
The Irish actor relished taking on the emotionally taxing role of a father whose son disappears while on holiday abroad - buit he insists it is just a work of fiction
BBC
Lost in France: James Nesbitt in The Missing
Having a child go missing is every parent’s worst nightmare. And James Nesbitt’s new TV drama begins in 2006, when a five-year-old boy seemingly vanishes into thin air.
The Irish actor stars as heartbroken Tony Hughes, who is on a family holiday in France with his wife Emily (Frances O’Connor) and son Olly. When he goes to buy a drink for the child in a busy French bar, Olly is swallowed up by the crowd – never to be seen again.
An epic manhunt is launched, and the eight-part series follows every gripping twist and turn along the way.
“It was very intense filming it,” admits James, 49, who’s a dad in real life to daughters Peggy, 17, and Mary, 12.
“That thing of briefly losing sight of a child happened to me when the kids were younger and you can’t see them in the supermarket, or wherever. It’s a terrible, terrible moment... the most unimaginable horror.
“What defines Tony is the sheer guilt he has. He’s constantly thinking, ‘What if I hadn’t gone to the bar at that point? What if I’d never let go of his hand? That all stays with him until the end of the drama.”
The French police face an uphill struggle to find Olly, while Tony and Emily are in a foreign land, unable to speak the language or understand the rules. As their story becomes public, Tony and Emily find themselves thrown into a media maelstrom, learning the hard way that not everyone has their best interests at heart.
Viewers will undoubtedly be reminded of the Madeleine McCann case, yet James denies this was intentional.
“That’s bound to be in the subconscious,” he agrees, “but this is more a thriller. There are twists and it became a bit of a whodunit.”
The action flashes between 2006 and the present day, where we see that Emily has tried to move on with her life while Tony is totally consumed by the hunt.
To get into the mindset of the obsessed father, James cut himself off from the cast and crew while filming took place in Brussels.
“I lived by myself,” he says, “and I got the art department to give me all the police clippings and files Tony would have had. I tried to live the isolated existence he would have done.”
After spending more than two years playing dwarf Bofur in the three movie adaptations of The Hobbit, the Cold Feet star was grateful for a darker, dramatic role.
“I had a fantastic experience in New Zealand,” James smiles, “but it was nice to come back and take on something meaty.”
James, who split from his wife Sonia last year, turns 50 in January.
“I think I’ll just play some golf with my mates,” he says, “and I’ll let my daughters take me out for dinner, spending my money. Or I’ll just sit in a dark room and cry!”
Oct 25, 2014 10:00
- By Susanna Galton
The Irish actor relished taking on the emotionally taxing role of a father whose son disappears while on holiday abroad - buit he insists it is just a work of fiction
BBC
Lost in France: James Nesbitt in The Missing
Having a child go missing is every parent’s worst nightmare. And James Nesbitt’s new TV drama begins in 2006, when a five-year-old boy seemingly vanishes into thin air.
The Irish actor stars as heartbroken Tony Hughes, who is on a family holiday in France with his wife Emily (Frances O’Connor) and son Olly. When he goes to buy a drink for the child in a busy French bar, Olly is swallowed up by the crowd – never to be seen again.
An epic manhunt is launched, and the eight-part series follows every gripping twist and turn along the way.
“It was very intense filming it,” admits James, 49, who’s a dad in real life to daughters Peggy, 17, and Mary, 12.
“That thing of briefly losing sight of a child happened to me when the kids were younger and you can’t see them in the supermarket, or wherever. It’s a terrible, terrible moment... the most unimaginable horror.
“What defines Tony is the sheer guilt he has. He’s constantly thinking, ‘What if I hadn’t gone to the bar at that point? What if I’d never let go of his hand? That all stays with him until the end of the drama.”
The French police face an uphill struggle to find Olly, while Tony and Emily are in a foreign land, unable to speak the language or understand the rules. As their story becomes public, Tony and Emily find themselves thrown into a media maelstrom, learning the hard way that not everyone has their best interests at heart.
Viewers will undoubtedly be reminded of the Madeleine McCann case, yet James denies this was intentional.
“That’s bound to be in the subconscious,” he agrees, “but this is more a thriller. There are twists and it became a bit of a whodunit.”
The action flashes between 2006 and the present day, where we see that Emily has tried to move on with her life while Tony is totally consumed by the hunt.
To get into the mindset of the obsessed father, James cut himself off from the cast and crew while filming took place in Brussels.
“I lived by myself,” he says, “and I got the art department to give me all the police clippings and files Tony would have had. I tried to live the isolated existence he would have done.”
After spending more than two years playing dwarf Bofur in the three movie adaptations of The Hobbit, the Cold Feet star was grateful for a darker, dramatic role.
“I had a fantastic experience in New Zealand,” James smiles, “but it was nice to come back and take on something meaty.”
James, who split from his wife Sonia last year, turns 50 in January.
“I think I’ll just play some golf with my mates,” he says, “and I’ll let my daughters take me out for dinner, spending my money. Or I’ll just sit in a dark room and cry!”
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by SixMillionQuid 25.10.14 14:24
"Viewers will undoubtedly be reminded of the Madeleine McCann case, yet James denies this was intentional."
Nope sorry there's no resemblance to the McCann case unless the McCanns are the only people on Earth who's child has gone missing.
Nope sorry there's no resemblance to the McCann case unless the McCanns are the only people on Earth who's child has gone missing.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by stumo 25.10.14 17:36
SixMillionQuid wrote:"Viewers will undoubtedly be reminded of the Madeleine McCann case, yet James denies this was intentional."
Nope sorry there's no resemblance to the McCann case unless the McCanns are the only people on Earth who's child has gone missing.
It certainly seems that's the case....
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by ultimaThule 25.10.14 18:12
Fictional father 'Tony Hughes' loses sight of his child when he goes to buy him a drink?
Nope, James, your character bears no resemblance to the McCanns who chose to go out of sight of their children so that they could drink with their pals.
Nope, James, your character bears no resemblance to the McCanns who chose to go out of sight of their children so that they could drink with their pals.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Miraflores 25.10.14 21:10
Much more like the case of the little girl who disappeared from an Army base supermarket in Germany, Katrice Lee, but who got nothing like the publicity which Madeleine McCann did.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Liz Eagles 25.10.14 22:48
Katrice Lee's mother and sister were sat on daytime telly sofa's alongside the McCanns and a senior police officer - funny that - up until that time the disappearance of Katrice Lee was virtually ignored by the press. Of course the McCanns were given more minutes of speaking during the slot.Miraflores wrote:Much more like the case of the little girl who disappeared from an Army base supermarket in Germany, Katrice Lee, but who got nothing like the publicity which Madeleine McCann did.
Ben Needham's disappearance has also been used....remember the digging operation in Kos - widespread media coverage on that. The problem is, that sod all had been done about his disappearance until there was no option other than to do something for Ben or be seen to be completely biased/doing nothing for the search for Ben.
The disappearance of Ben Needham was needed to reinforce Madeleine's disappearance imo.
Ben Needham's mum subsequently wrote a book (I bought it) - it seems everyone is now encouraged to write a book. I shan't give my opinion on the book. This is, imo, the Team McCann model.
These three children, Ben Needham, Katrice Lee and Madeleine McCann are the only children shown on Missing Kids website as 'missing abroad'. The case of Katrice Lee was very different from Madeleine - Katrice was domicile in Germany. Ben Needham was domicile in Kos.
There is a whole new fear factor of statistics quoted by Missing People as to how many children go missing in UK - I'd love to see proof of these statistics.
There is a whole new xenophobic fear factor of blonde, blue-eyed children going missing abroad - and yet only three are quoted.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Joss 27.10.14 15:09
A bit OT but i didn't realise Ben Affleck made a movie about Madeleine.
Ben Affleck: Why my 'Madeleine' film had to be pulled
Striking similarities with the McCann case have delayed the UK release of Ben Affleck's first film as a director. He talks to John Hiscock
Ben Affleck film halted in UK over Madeleine McCann concerns
Iain Gray: Not everything is about Madeleine
The search for Madeleine McCann
Ben Affleck had not heard of the case of Madeleine McCann when he put the finishing touches to Gone Baby Gone, the provocative thriller that marks his directing debut.
But when the film's British distributors pointed out it bore marked similarities to Madeleine's case, he immediately went along with their decision to pull it from the line-up of the London Film Festival and suspend its release in the UK indefinitely, even if it means that cinemagoers in Britain will have to wait a long time to see his maiden directing effort.
"Disney UK made the decision to postpone the movie but I absolutely support it and I'm pleased by what I think is erring on the side of good taste," he says.
"There's no rush. It's obviously a sensitive time and if there are any similarities we can wait to distribute the movie in the UK.
"I was only vaguely aware of the Madeleine case because it wasn't a big thing here in the United States. Maybe I'm out of it because I don't read many newspapers, but I didn't really know much about it until somebody said, 'Hey, there may be some similarities.'?"
Gone Baby Gone, set in Affleck's home town of Boston and based on a hard-boiled detective novel by Dennis Lehane, could be the movie that gains the likeable Affleck the film industry respect that his varied but usually mediocre film roles have yet to earn him.
He does a creditable job of directing his emotionally wrenching story. The movie's missing four-year-old girl, named Amanda McCreadie and portrayed by a young actress named Madeleine O'Brien, bears a strong resemblance to Madeleine McCann and, as in the McCann case, the hunt for her is conducted in the glare of the media spotlight.
But the similarities end there: the movie veers into a realm of drug dealers, ex-convicts, child abusers, broken families and bitter police officers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3668478/Ben-Affleck-Why-my-Madeleine-film-had-to-be-pulled.html
Ben Affleck: Why my 'Madeleine' film had to be pulled
Striking similarities with the McCann case have delayed the UK release of Ben Affleck's first film as a director. He talks to John Hiscock
Ben Affleck film halted in UK over Madeleine McCann concerns
Iain Gray: Not everything is about Madeleine
The search for Madeleine McCann
Ben Affleck had not heard of the case of Madeleine McCann when he put the finishing touches to Gone Baby Gone, the provocative thriller that marks his directing debut.
But when the film's British distributors pointed out it bore marked similarities to Madeleine's case, he immediately went along with their decision to pull it from the line-up of the London Film Festival and suspend its release in the UK indefinitely, even if it means that cinemagoers in Britain will have to wait a long time to see his maiden directing effort.
"Disney UK made the decision to postpone the movie but I absolutely support it and I'm pleased by what I think is erring on the side of good taste," he says.
"There's no rush. It's obviously a sensitive time and if there are any similarities we can wait to distribute the movie in the UK.
"I was only vaguely aware of the Madeleine case because it wasn't a big thing here in the United States. Maybe I'm out of it because I don't read many newspapers, but I didn't really know much about it until somebody said, 'Hey, there may be some similarities.'?"
Gone Baby Gone, set in Affleck's home town of Boston and based on a hard-boiled detective novel by Dennis Lehane, could be the movie that gains the likeable Affleck the film industry respect that his varied but usually mediocre film roles have yet to earn him.
He does a creditable job of directing his emotionally wrenching story. The movie's missing four-year-old girl, named Amanda McCreadie and portrayed by a young actress named Madeleine O'Brien, bears a strong resemblance to Madeleine McCann and, as in the McCann case, the hunt for her is conducted in the glare of the media spotlight.
But the similarities end there: the movie veers into a realm of drug dealers, ex-convicts, child abusers, broken families and bitter police officers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3668478/Ben-Affleck-Why-my-Madeleine-film-had-to-be-pulled.html
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by jeanmonroe 29.10.14 0:27
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So, nothing like mcCann's child 'disappearance'!
The 'police' asked for a 'recent' photo which (Nesbitt) produced from the digital camera. a photo of the 'missing' child 'taken just a few hours before the boy's 'disappearance'.
Remind me, didn't KM have a 'recent' photo of Madeleine in her camera, taken just a few hours before her child's 'disappearance'?
So (nesbitt's) most recent photo on posters/flyers within HOURS, KM's recent 'last photo, by pool' taken a few hours before her child's 'disappearance' takes THREE WEEKS to 'appear' on 'posters/flyers'
Yep, 'The Missing' totally unlike Madeleine's 'disappearance'!
So, nothing like mcCann's child 'disappearance'!
The 'police' asked for a 'recent' photo which (Nesbitt) produced from the digital camera. a photo of the 'missing' child 'taken just a few hours before the boy's 'disappearance'.
Remind me, didn't KM have a 'recent' photo of Madeleine in her camera, taken just a few hours before her child's 'disappearance'?
So (nesbitt's) most recent photo on posters/flyers within HOURS, KM's recent 'last photo, by pool' taken a few hours before her child's 'disappearance' takes THREE WEEKS to 'appear' on 'posters/flyers'
Yep, 'The Missing' totally unlike Madeleine's 'disappearance'!
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Brian Griffin 29.10.14 3:45
First episode - saw it - really good and it definitely isn't about Madeleine McCann because the parents in 'Missing' actually cared and made an effort to look for the missing child, so it's nothing like the McCann case at all.
In my opinion.
In my opinion.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by ultimaThule 29.10.14 21:01
Joss wrote:A bit OT but i didn't realise Ben Affleck made a movie about Madeleine.
Ben Affleck: Why my 'Madeleine' film had to be pulled
Striking similarities with the McCann case have delayed the UK release of Ben Affleck's first film as a director. He talks to John Hiscock
Ben Affleck film halted in UK over Madeleine McCann concerns
Iain Gray: Not everything is about Madeleine
The search for Madeleine McCann
Ben Affleck had not heard of the case of Madeleine McCann when he put the finishing touches to Gone Baby Gone, the provocative thriller that marks his directing debut.
But when the film's British distributors pointed out it bore marked similarities to Madeleine's case, he immediately went along with their decision to pull it from the line-up of the London Film Festival and suspend its release in the UK indefinitely, even if it means that cinemagoers in Britain will have to wait a long time to see his maiden directing effort.
"Disney UK made the decision to postpone the movie but I absolutely support it and I'm pleased by what I think is erring on the side of good taste," he says.
"There's no rush. It's obviously a sensitive time and if there are any similarities we can wait to distribute the movie in the UK.
"I was only vaguely aware of the Madeleine case because it wasn't a big thing here in the United States. Maybe I'm out of it because I don't read many newspapers, but I didn't really know much about it until somebody said, 'Hey, there may be some similarities.'?"
Gone Baby Gone, set in Affleck's home town of Boston and based on a hard-boiled detective novel by Dennis Lehane, could be the movie that gains the likeable Affleck the film industry respect that his varied but usually mediocre film roles have yet to earn him.
He does a creditable job of directing his emotionally wrenching story. The movie's missing four-year-old girl, named Amanda McCreadie and portrayed by a young actress named Madeleine O'Brien, bears a strong resemblance to Madeleine McCann and, as in the McCann case, the hunt for her is conducted in the glare of the media spotlight.
But the similarities end there: the movie veers into a realm of drug dealers, ex-convicts, child abusers, broken families and bitter police officers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3668478/Ben-Affleck-Why-my-Madeleine-film-had-to-be-pulled.html
I missed Ben Affleck's film 'Gone Baby Gone' too, Joss, but it isn't about Madeleine per se and, although the release of this film to UK cinemas may still be on hold, it is available to download or buy on dvd - which, given that it's based on a novel by Dennis Lehane of Mystic River fame, has a 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and garnered a slew of prestigious awards, I intend to do tonight
While John Hiscock's Telegraph article dated October 2007 has it that the similarities end when the movie "veers into a realm of drug dealers, ex-convicts, child abusers, broken families and bitter police officers" it seems to me that, 7 years on, the writer may have cause to
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by columbostogeys 30.10.14 12:36
I watched it way back and it was nothing like the McCann case. I quite enjoyed the film and the ending was as I expected. I never could understand why it was pulled.ultimaThule wrote:Joss wrote:A bit OT but i didn't realise Ben Affleck made a movie about Madeleine.
Ben Affleck: Why my 'Madeleine' film had to be pulled
Striking similarities with the McCann case have delayed the UK release of Ben Affleck's first film as a director. He talks to John Hiscock
Ben Affleck film halted in UK over Madeleine McCann concerns
Iain Gray: Not everything is about Madeleine
The search for Madeleine McCann
Ben Affleck had not heard of the case of Madeleine McCann when he put the finishing touches to Gone Baby Gone, the provocative thriller that marks his directing debut.
But when the film's British distributors pointed out it bore marked similarities to Madeleine's case, he immediately went along with their decision to pull it from the line-up of the London Film Festival and suspend its release in the UK indefinitely, even if it means that cinemagoers in Britain will have to wait a long time to see his maiden directing effort.
"Disney UK made the decision to postpone the movie but I absolutely support it and I'm pleased by what I think is erring on the side of good taste," he says.
"There's no rush. It's obviously a sensitive time and if there are any similarities we can wait to distribute the movie in the UK.
"I was only vaguely aware of the Madeleine case because it wasn't a big thing here in the United States. Maybe I'm out of it because I don't read many newspapers, but I didn't really know much about it until somebody said, 'Hey, there may be some similarities.'?"
Gone Baby Gone, set in Affleck's home town of Boston and based on a hard-boiled detective novel by Dennis Lehane, could be the movie that gains the likeable Affleck the film industry respect that his varied but usually mediocre film roles have yet to earn him.
He does a creditable job of directing his emotionally wrenching story. The movie's missing four-year-old girl, named Amanda McCreadie and portrayed by a young actress named Madeleine O'Brien, bears a strong resemblance to Madeleine McCann and, as in the McCann case, the hunt for her is conducted in the glare of the media spotlight.
But the similarities end there: the movie veers into a realm of drug dealers, ex-convicts, child abusers, broken families and bitter police officers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3668478/Ben-Affleck-Why-my-Madeleine-film-had-to-be-pulled.html
I missed Ben Affleck's film 'Gone Baby Gone' too, Joss, but it isn't about Madeleine per se and, although the release of this film to UK cinemas may still be on hold, it is available to download or buy on dvd - which, given that it's based on a novel by Dennis Lehane of Mystic River fame, has a 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and garnered a slew of prestigious awards, I intend to do tonight
While John Hiscock's Telegraph article dated October 2007 has it that the similarities end when the movie "veers into a realm of drug dealers, ex-convicts, child abusers, broken families and bitter police officers" it seems to me that, 7 years on, the writer may have cause toeatrewrite his words
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by columbostogeys 30.10.14 12:41
Yes I remember that case well, being in the forces at the time it kind of made it so personal. They never found her though sadly. I think her case far more reflects the series The Missing then the McCanns.Miraflores wrote:Much more like the case of the little girl who disappeared from an Army base supermarket in Germany, Katrice Lee, but who got nothing like the publicity which Madeleine McCann did.
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by Guest 30.10.14 13:10
I don't remember the Katrice Lee case getting any publicity whatsoever at the time. I'm sure that it would have stuck in my mind as my son was then a year older than her and, like all parents, I'd had the odd fright of my life when he wandered off in a shop.
It was maybe 10 years later that I read something about the case.
It was maybe 10 years later that I read something about the case.
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by Guest 30.10.14 13:39
Joss wrote:A bit OT but i didn't realise Ben Affleck made a movie about Madeleine.
Ben Affleck: Why my 'Madeleine' film had to be pulled
Striking similarities with the McCann case have delayed the UK release of Ben Affleck's first film as a director. He talks to John Hiscock
Ben Affleck film halted in UK over Madeleine McCann concerns
Iain Gray: Not everything is about Madeleine
The search for Madeleine McCann
Ben Affleck had not heard of the case of Madeleine McCann when he put the finishing touches to Gone Baby Gone, the provocative thriller that marks his directing debut.
But when the film's British distributors pointed out it bore marked similarities to Madeleine's case, he immediately went along with their decision to pull it from the line-up of the London Film Festival and suspend its release in the UK indefinitely, even if it means that cinemagoers in Britain will have to wait a long time to see his maiden directing effort.
"Disney UK made the decision to postpone the movie but I absolutely support it and I'm pleased by what I think is erring on the side of good taste," he says.
"There's no rush. It's obviously a sensitive time and if there are any similarities we can wait to distribute the movie in the UK.
"I was only vaguely aware of the Madeleine case because it wasn't a big thing here in the United States. Maybe I'm out of it because I don't read many newspapers, but I didn't really know much about it until somebody said, 'Hey, there may be some similarities.'?"
Gone Baby Gone, set in Affleck's home town of Boston and based on a hard-boiled detective novel by Dennis Lehane, could be the movie that gains the likeable Affleck the film industry respect that his varied but usually mediocre film roles have yet to earn him.
He does a creditable job of directing his emotionally wrenching story. The movie's missing four-year-old girl, named Amanda McCreadie and portrayed by a young actress named Madeleine O'Brien, bears a strong resemblance to Madeleine McCann and, as in the McCann case, the hunt for her is conducted in the glare of the media spotlight.
But the similarities end there: the movie veers into a realm of drug dealers, ex-convicts, child abusers, broken families and bitter police officers. THAT'S ALLRIGHT THEN!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3668478/Ben-Affleck-Why-my-Madeleine-film-had-to-be-pulled.html
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by bobbin 30.10.14 14:29
The highlighted bit.Portia wrote:Joss wrote:A bit OT but i didn't realise Ben Affleck made a movie about Madeleine.
Ben Affleck: Why my 'Madeleine' film had to be pulled
Striking similarities with the McCann case have delayed the UK release of Ben Affleck's first film as a director. He talks to John Hiscock
Ben Affleck film halted in UK over Madeleine McCann concerns
Iain Gray: Not everything is about Madeleine
The search for Madeleine McCann
Ben Affleck had not heard of the case of Madeleine McCann when he put the finishing touches to Gone Baby Gone, the provocative thriller that marks his directing debut.
But when the film's British distributors pointed out it bore marked similarities to Madeleine's case, he immediately went along with their decision to pull it from the line-up of the London Film Festival and suspend its release in the UK indefinitely, even if it means that cinemagoers in Britain will have to wait a long time to see his maiden directing effort.
"Disney UK made the decision to postpone the movie but I absolutely support it and I'm pleased by what I think is erring on the side of good taste," he says.
"There's no rush. It's obviously a sensitive time and if there are any similarities we can wait to distribute the movie in the UK.
"I was only vaguely aware of the Madeleine case because it wasn't a big thing here in the United States. Maybe I'm out of it because I don't read many newspapers, but I didn't really know much about it until somebody said, 'Hey, there may be some similarities.'?"
Gone Baby Gone, set in Affleck's home town of Boston and based on a hard-boiled detective novel by Dennis Lehane, could be the movie that gains the likeable Affleck the film industry respect that his varied but usually mediocre film roles have yet to earn him.
He does a creditable job of directing his emotionally wrenching story. The movie's missing four-year-old girl, named Amanda McCreadie and portrayed by a young actress named Madeleine O'Brien, bears a strong resemblance to Madeleine McCann and, as in the McCann case, the hunt for her is conducted in the glare of the media spotlight.
But the similarities end there: the movie veers into a realm of drug dealers, ex-convicts, child abusers, broken families and bitter police officers. THAT'S ALLRIGHT THEN!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3668478/Ben-Affleck-Why-my-Madeleine-film-had-to-be-pulled.html
I dispute that the similarities end there, I would say every one of those ingredients is becoming more and more apparent in the McC recipe.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Casey5 30.10.14 15:01
I missed Ben Affleck's film 'Gone Baby Gone' too, Joss, but it isn't about Madeleine per se and, although the release of this film to UK cinemas may still be on hold, it is available to download or buy on dvd - which, given that it's based on a novel by Dennis Lehane of Mystic River fame, has a 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and garnered a slew of prestigious awards, I intend to do tonight.
I'm sure I saw it on TV, the film's debut was delayed for 6 months. I'm glad I watched it but it was so heavy going, surely nobody swears as much as the whole lot of them did in this film (excepting for Morgan Freeman). That's what made me nearly turn it off - and I would have done but I wanted to see why the release date was set back - nothing like the McCanns' case I thought.
And I don't think the McCann ending - if there ever is one- will be anywhere like the film's either.
I'm sure I saw it on TV, the film's debut was delayed for 6 months. I'm glad I watched it but it was so heavy going, surely nobody swears as much as the whole lot of them did in this film (excepting for Morgan Freeman). That's what made me nearly turn it off - and I would have done but I wanted to see why the release date was set back - nothing like the McCanns' case I thought.
And I don't think the McCann ending - if there ever is one- will be anywhere like the film's either.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by TheTruthWillOut 30.10.14 15:13
Like others have said, this movie has little in common with this case outside a young girl going missing.
The tabloids did what they always do.....2+2=5. The 3 year old actress' real name was Madeleine so therefore it must be about her!
Edit: About the Missing. I don't hold out too much hope it being any better than say Broadchurch but there are some plot points that might be interesting (the reporter and French CID officer for example)
I just worry it turns out like Broadchurch which IMO was a traditional 2 hour drama stretched out to 8 hours. Not helped by the fact it gave away who the perp was in the first episode.
The tabloids did what they always do.....2+2=5. The 3 year old actress' real name was Madeleine so therefore it must be about her!
Edit: About the Missing. I don't hold out too much hope it being any better than say Broadchurch but there are some plot points that might be interesting (the reporter and French CID officer for example)
I just worry it turns out like Broadchurch which IMO was a traditional 2 hour drama stretched out to 8 hours. Not helped by the fact it gave away who the perp was in the first episode.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Joss 30.10.14 15:40
Thanks for your clarification about the movie. I haven't seen it myself and had not heard of it, but there was mention of it on another site i was reading, so i googled and watched a trailer about it on youtube that only went for a couple of minutes. Maybe i will download if i can and watch the full version.ultimaThule wrote:Joss wrote:A bit OT but i didn't realise Ben Affleck made a movie about Madeleine.
Ben Affleck: Why my 'Madeleine' film had to be pulled
Striking similarities with the McCann case have delayed the UK release of Ben Affleck's first film as a director. He talks to John Hiscock
Ben Affleck film halted in UK over Madeleine McCann concerns
Iain Gray: Not everything is about Madeleine
The search for Madeleine McCann
Ben Affleck had not heard of the case of Madeleine McCann when he put the finishing touches to Gone Baby Gone, the provocative thriller that marks his directing debut.
But when the film's British distributors pointed out it bore marked similarities to Madeleine's case, he immediately went along with their decision to pull it from the line-up of the London Film Festival and suspend its release in the UK indefinitely, even if it means that cinemagoers in Britain will have to wait a long time to see his maiden directing effort.
"Disney UK made the decision to postpone the movie but I absolutely support it and I'm pleased by what I think is erring on the side of good taste," he says.
"There's no rush. It's obviously a sensitive time and if there are any similarities we can wait to distribute the movie in the UK.
"I was only vaguely aware of the Madeleine case because it wasn't a big thing here in the United States. Maybe I'm out of it because I don't read many newspapers, but I didn't really know much about it until somebody said, 'Hey, there may be some similarities.'?"
Gone Baby Gone, set in Affleck's home town of Boston and based on a hard-boiled detective novel by Dennis Lehane, could be the movie that gains the likeable Affleck the film industry respect that his varied but usually mediocre film roles have yet to earn him.
He does a creditable job of directing his emotionally wrenching story. The movie's missing four-year-old girl, named Amanda McCreadie and portrayed by a young actress named Madeleine O'Brien, bears a strong resemblance to Madeleine McCann and, as in the McCann case, the hunt for her is conducted in the glare of the media spotlight.
But the similarities end there: the movie veers into a realm of drug dealers, ex-convicts, child abusers, broken families and bitter police officers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3668478/Ben-Affleck-Why-my-Madeleine-film-had-to-be-pulled.html
I missed Ben Affleck's film 'Gone Baby Gone' too, Joss, but it isn't about Madeleine per se and, although the release of this film to UK cinemas may still be on hold, it is available to download or buy on dvd - which, given that it's based on a novel by Dennis Lehane of Mystic River fame, has a 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and garnered a slew of prestigious awards, I intend to do tonight
While John Hiscock's Telegraph article dated October 2007 has it that the similarities end when the movie "veers into a realm of drug dealers, ex-convicts, child abusers, broken families and bitter police officers" it seems to me that, 7 years on, the writer may have cause toeatrewrite his words
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by galena 01.11.14 15:48
I'm pretty certain 'Gone baby gone' was written before Madeleine disappeared.Casey5 wrote:I missed Ben Affleck's film 'Gone Baby Gone' too, Joss, but it isn't about Madeleine per se and, although the release of this film to UK cinemas may still be on hold, it is available to download or buy on dvd - which, given that it's based on a novel by Dennis Lehane of Mystic River fame, has a 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and garnered a slew of prestigious awards, I intend to do tonight.
I'm sure I saw it on TV, the film's debut was delayed for 6 months. I'm glad I watched it but it was so heavy going, surely nobody swears as much as the whole lot of them did in this film (excepting for Morgan Freeman). That's what made me nearly turn it off - and I would have done but I wanted to see why the release date was set back - nothing like the McCanns' case I thought.
And I don't think the McCann ending - if there ever is one- will be anywhere like the film's either.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Guest 01.11.14 16:03
The book on which it was based (by Dennis Lehane) was published in 1998.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by jeanmonroe 05.11.14 11:29
Esp 2:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04nyq1y/the-missing-2-pray-for-me
54:46 minutes.
Journo in cafe with 'missing' child's mother, Emily.
Emily: "that's all you have?"
Journo "No, far from it"
Journo: "No, I have some information of my own, i'm in the process of corroborating"
Journo "I'm trying to find out the truth, if you'd agree to a proper interview"
Emily "You must be joking"
Journo "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID EMILY, YOU AND TONY, AND I'M GOING TO PROVE IT"
Emily "leaves" concerned look on face.
Good, innit?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04nyq1y/the-missing-2-pray-for-me
54:46 minutes.
Journo in cafe with 'missing' child's mother, Emily.
Emily: "that's all you have?"
Journo "No, far from it"
Journo: "No, I have some information of my own, i'm in the process of corroborating"
Journo "I'm trying to find out the truth, if you'd agree to a proper interview"
Emily "You must be joking"
Journo "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID EMILY, YOU AND TONY, AND I'M GOING TO PROVE IT"
Emily "leaves" concerned look on face.
Good, innit?
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Guest 05.11.14 11:35
No setting up of a limited company in near record time though - now that would have stretched viewers' credibility a little too far!
An interesting development at the end relating to the witnesses in the park - I won't say what for those who haven't watched yet.
An interesting development at the end relating to the witnesses in the park - I won't say what for those who haven't watched yet.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Brian Griffin 05.11.14 12:19
Yeah, that's what I thought too! I wonder if Mr and Mrs are watching it. I'd be squirming in my seat if I were one of them. I'll bet Gezza has been on the blower to his legal already.jeanmonroe wrote:Esp 2:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04nyq1y/the-missing-2-pray-for-me
54:46 minutes.
Journo in cafe with 'missing' child's mother, Emily.
Emily: "that's all you have?"
Journo "No, far from it"
Journo: "No, I have some information of my own, i'm in the process of corroborating"
Journo "I'm trying to find out the truth, if you'd agree to a proper interview"
Emily "You must be joking"
Journo "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID EMILY, YOU AND TONY, AND I'M GOING TO PROVE IT"
Emily "leaves" concerned look on face.
Good, innit?
In this episode, the 2006 Emily is looking a lot like Kate, and the religious bit is in there too. Interesting.
In my opinion.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Evening_All 05.11.14 13:55
Noted the above as well, they even did the tv broadcast bit but left out the s'il vous plait at the end. Definately no resemblence to the McCanns.Brian Griffin wrote:Yeah, that's what I thought too! I wonder if Mr and Mrs are watching it. I'd be squirming in my seat if I were one of them. I'll bet Gezza has been on the blower to his legal already.jeanmonroe wrote:Esp 2:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04nyq1y/the-missing-2-pray-for-me
54:46 minutes.
Journo in cafe with 'missing' child's mother, Emily.
Emily: "that's all you have?"
Journo "No, far from it"
Journo: "No, I have some information of my own, i'm in the process of corroborating"
Journo "I'm trying to find out the truth, if you'd agree to a proper interview"
Emily "You must be joking"
Journo "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID EMILY, YOU AND TONY, AND I'M GOING TO PROVE IT"
Emily "leaves" concerned look on face.
Good, innit?
In this episode, the 2006 Emily is looking a lot like Kate, and the religious bit is in there too. Interesting.
In my opinion.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by jeanmonroe 05.11.14 15:23
An interesting development at the end relating to the witnesses in the park
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That'll be the Smiff's then!
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That'll be the Smiff's then!
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Lance De Boils 05.11.14 18:09
Wasn't that the guy who offered the large reward the same one who 'arranged' some witnesses?
I did raise an eyebrow, I must say!
I did raise an eyebrow, I must say!
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Brian Griffin 14.11.14 17:27
Episode 3 - notice the deliberate and awkward hand-holding bit when someone knocks on the door? 
I feel in this episode the story seems to have slowed right down, which is disappointing given the pace of the first two. Good cliff-hanger to finish it, though - sent shivers down my spine!
I feel in this episode the story seems to have slowed right down, which is disappointing given the pace of the first two. Good cliff-hanger to finish it, though - sent shivers down my spine!
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Onager 14.11.14 19:29
Would tend to agree with you Brian, re the pacing of episode 3.
I think we'll 'see' a number of similarities between actual and fiction, as I'm sure the principle production staff, the producers, writers and director, have analysed footage from a number of cases.
The (inevitable) scene which stuck out for me, was the wife telling hubby they wouldn't be in this situation had he looked after their son. My first thought was... has this conversation been aired? If so who was present? And who was on the receiving end? For if we are to believe the abduction theory, a direct consequence of nine adults leaving their charges to their own devices, someone must have come up with the bright idea. Someone who must be carrying quite a heavy burden... or maybe not.
I think we'll 'see' a number of similarities between actual and fiction, as I'm sure the principle production staff, the producers, writers and director, have analysed footage from a number of cases.
The (inevitable) scene which stuck out for me, was the wife telling hubby they wouldn't be in this situation had he looked after their son. My first thought was... has this conversation been aired? If so who was present? And who was on the receiving end? For if we are to believe the abduction theory, a direct consequence of nine adults leaving their charges to their own devices, someone must have come up with the bright idea. Someone who must be carrying quite a heavy burden... or maybe not.
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Re: James Nesbitt: "The Missing is a thriller, it isn't about the Madeleine McCann case"
by Brian Griffin 15.11.14 1:39
There are 8 episodes in the series, and if not utilised properly, you'll get the same problem we've seen with the last two series of 'Homeland'. The first series was just (sorry to sound American here) awesome! It was gripping! It is the best thing I've seen since the early seasons of 24. The 3rd series and the present one just drag and drag and drag. They've got 12 hour-long slots to fill and about 2 hours-worth of interesting story so there is so much filler it spoils the drama. I hope 'Missing' isn't going to go down that route!
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