Colin Firth Talks The Railway Guy

Full steam ahead for Bang dramaGary Oldman may be drawing the critiques with Alec Guinness at this time but it's his Mess Tailor Soldier Spy co-star Colin Firth who's heading onto Guinness' patch next. Firth remains freshly cast becoming an ex-Bang inside the approaching adaptation of Eric Lomax's memoir The Railway Guy, which he shared some early impressions in the project when Empire taken track of him now. Lomax, a lieutenant inside the Royal Signals, was taken with the Japanese at november Singapore in 1942 and shipped to pay attention to the infamous Burma railway. The film will cut between his brutal war time encounters and also the tries to sit in civilian existence and reconcile along with his Japanese captors. The film starts shooting early next season in the uk, Thailand and Australia. It dates backwards and forwards with time and set, Firth referred to. My character's story occupies Britain, and precisely Berwick. You will observe the moments that occur through the war but clearly someone else will probably be doing that. The actor told us the railway moments will probably be shot australia wide, unlike The Bridge Concerning The River Kwai where Sri Lanka bending-up for your Burma-Siam railroad. Director Jonathan Teplitzky and also the crew set to use in February next season. Question for you is: who should play in the youthful Colin? Suggestions about the forum-created postcard....