Trailer: THE IRON LADY - Meryl Streep's Is Margaret Thatcher!
Scored very strangely to Clint Mansell's memorable score to Moon comes the British trailer for The Weinstein Company's sure to be powerful Oscar contender The Iron Lady.
Scored very strangely to Clint Mansell's memorable score to Moon comes the British trailer for The Weinstein Company's sure to be powerful Oscar contender The Iron Lady, released thanks to The Guardian. A biopic of former U.K. prime minster, the controversial Margaret Thatcher, the film focuses on crucial events in the run-up to the Falklands War in 1982 and contains a cast of venerable Brtish Talent including Jim Broadbent as Maggies husband Dennis, Richard E. Grant as Michael Heseltine, Roger Allam as Gordon Reece and Anthony Head as Geoffrey Howe. Mamma Mia director Phyllida Lloyd helms. The first trailer features Streep, convicing us with ease as Maggie which was never in doubt, though the scene itself doesn't quite work for me... Since the very first day the film was announced, The Iron Lady has been looked upon as Streeps The Queen i.e. the political minded movie biopic of a fascinating and controversial figure, during a tumultuous time, that will see the veteran, almost peerless actress, be dominant on the Awards stage. And the buzz coming out of the production camp for the movie is easily as strong if not more so than the early word on Colin Firths Oscar winning turn in The Kings Speech. Pathe is set to release the movie in the UK on January 6, 2012 though its likely to open in the U.S. a few weeks earlier so it can qualify for the Oscar season. As Ive said for weeks, bookies should stop taking bets on Meryl Streep walking away with the Best Actress Oscar.