The Damned United Hollywood Movie 2009
Cast And Crew
Actors Michael Sheen Brian Clough, Jim Broadbent Sam Longson
Timothy Spall Peter Taylor ,Colm Meaney Don Revie
Henry Goodman Manny Cussins ,Maurice Roeves Jimmy Gordon
Director ,Tom Hooper
Writers, ,Peter Morgan Screenplay (adaptation)
Producers Christine Langan Executive Producer
Hugo Heppell Executive Producer
Peter Morgan Executive Producer
Grainne Marmion Co-Producer
Lee Morris Co-Producer
Genres: Art/Foreign, Adaptation, Biopic and Sports
Running Time: 1 hr. 38 min.
Release Date: October 9th, 2009 (limited)
MPAA Rating: R for language.
Distributors: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co.: Left Bank Pictures
Studios: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Financiers: BBC Films, Screen Yorkshire
Produced in: United
Plot Summary
An examination of what went wrong for the dynamic, outspoken young football manager Brian Clough when he took over at Leeds United, the reigning champions in 1974.
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon star Michael Sheen had a fascinating interview with HitFix.com where he talked about his film The Damned United. In the film, Sheen portrays Brian Clough during his time as the coach of U.K. football (American "soccer") Leeds United. The Damned United brought Sheen to Toronto recently for the Toronto International Film Festival (alongside Anna Kendrick for Up In The Air and Xavier Samuel for The Loved Ones) and was released in U.K. theate »
A few hours ago I spoke with Michael Sheen regarding his new movie “The Damned United”. While I’ll have much more on his new film soon, I was able to ask Michael about some of his other projects like “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”, “Tron Legacy”, “Alice in Wonderland” and the “Underworld” franchise. So if you’d like to hear what Michael had to say about those projects, hit the jump.
The first thing Michael told me was he’s heard the rumors about a 4th “Underworld”, but no one has contacted him yet.
We then spoke about the next “Twilight” movie, “New Moon” and he revealed the main reason he took the role of Aro is because of his daughter. He also talked about working on Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” and explained his love of the book and how the movie is going to be different. »
The Welsh actor reveals the late Nottingham Forest, Derby County and Leeds United manager's family refused to take a look at the script for The Damned United and turned down invites to see previews of the film.
Sheen can understand why they were dead set against the idea of seeing the movie, but he hopes they've since had the chance to check it out.
He tells WENN, "His family were against the film because they were very against the book that it was an adaptation of. The book is a very dark portrayal of Brian and we tried to celebrate him more in the film, but I understood why the family were very wary of the film.
"We offered to send them a copy of the script and they didn't want to look at that and we offered them private screenings of the film, but they didn't want that either. I hope they've seen the film since and realised we weren't trying to make him look bad." »
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One film that American audiences probably won’t make as popular as all those listed above is the film he’s currently doing press for at the Toronto Film Festival. The Damned United is a soccer biopic about Brian Clough’s 44-day reign as the coach of Leeds United.
Let’s say we live in a world where you can only pick one. »
Sheen was in Toronto promoting “The Damned United” when Empire got the chance to ask him about the sci-fi adventure. According to them, Sheen’s role actually sounds smaller than originally thought. A couple of month’s ago the world had him pegged as the film’s villain. Either that, or he’s downplaying his character’s significance:
His role sounds more like a cameo than a fully-fledged character, since he only seems
We've known for a while that Michael Sheen would be in Tron Legacy. Sheen has started to explode into high-profile films, and while he's been stuck in the Underworld films and now the Twilight series, he's also impressed us in Frost/Nixon and The Queen. His presence in the new Tron flick is nothing but a good thing. Coming Soon talked to Sheen in Toronto, where his film The Damned United premiered. Sadly, his role in Legacy sounds like a small one, as he's playing a nightclub owner within the computer world. That was amazing, because there's a lot of green screen in that. But my stuff was mainly in this amazing set that they built because I'm a nightclub host, so they built the nightclub and there were hundreds of extras and it was one of those great scenes where there's just loads going on. Sheen also made a »
Michael Sheen, in Toronto promoting The Damned United, has revealed a couple of tidbits of information about Tron Legacy to Coming Soon.His role sounds more like a cameo than a fully-fledged character, since he only seems to be talking about one scene. "It's amazing because there's a lot of green screen," he says. Yes, thanks for that.But apparently it's not all virtual: there's at least a modicum of physical set-building happening. "My stuff was mainly in this amazing set that they built because I'm a nightclub host, so they built the nightclub and there were hundreds of extras and it was one of those great scenes where there's just loads going on." Sheen also says that the FX have already evolved from the showreel / teaser released a while ago: "[Director] Joe Kosinski now says that he doesn't like people seeing that because it's moved on so much from that, »
We've known for a while that Michael Sheen would be in Tron Legacy. Sheen has started to explode into high-profile films, and while he's been stuck in the Underworld films and now the Twilight series, he's also impressed us in Frost/Nixon and The Queen. His presence in the new Tron flick is nothing but a good thing. Coming Soon talked to Sheen in Toronto, where his film The Damned United premiered. Sadly, his role in Legacy sounds like a small one, as he's playing a nightclub owner within the computer world. That was amazing, because there's a lot of green screen in that. But my stuff was mainly in this amazing set that they built because I'm a nightclub host, so they built the nightclub and there were hundreds of extras and it was one of those great scenes where there's just loads going on. Sheen also made a »
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