*UPDATE* "Hold on to me" has an official director: James Marsh..!

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from Screen 

... report that James Marsh, the man behind the sublime “Man on Wire”, the excellent “Red Riding” and “Shadow Dancer", has another project. The filmmaker’s encounter with the producers of “The Girl With A Clock For A Heart”, an adaptation of the novel by Peter Swanson, about a man who reconnects with an ex-girlfriend who needs your help. Marsh compares the project “Memento” and “Point Blank” has our attention.
There are no deadlines yet, but is likely Marsh addressed “Hold On To Me” with Robert Pattinson and Carey Mulligan first.
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James Marsh, "Hold On To Me" director... about Robert Pattinson....

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Ooh.... love what James Marsh says about Rob.....

   

de Cinemateaser

Alors si Marsh compte tourner cette mini-série encore sans titre officiel l’été prochain, où en est HOLD ON TO ME, son projet avec Robert Pattinson et Carey Mulligan ? « Ça avance, nous rassure Marsh. Je pense tourner début 2013 si les financements sont sécurisés. » Souvent comparé à PRÊTE À TOUT de Gus Van Sant en raison de son pitch (une reine de beauté kidnappe et enterre vivant un homme pour de l’argent), Marsh nous précise qu’il trouve la comparaison idoine, même si « BOOGIE NIGHTS sera aussi un modèle en termes de ton. C’est un de mes films préférés, car il va de la noirceur à l’humour en une seconde. HOLD ON TO ME sera une comédie sombre. Mes docus avaient de l’humour – du moins je l’espère – alors que mes fictions étaient plus pesantes. Là, cela sera plus exubérant. » Un opus qui pourrait changer la carrière de Marsh, en raison de la présence au casting de Robert Pattinson : «Robert est intéressant : il sait où il veut aller et il veut travailler sur des projets qu’il aide à se faire, comme COSMOPOLIS. Il utilise sa notoriété et son énergie pour aider des gens comme moi à faire des films intéressants. Il a beaucoup de potentiel. Quand on s’est rencontrés, j’ai adoré son attitude à l’égard du cinéma. Il a beaucoup aimé le scénario et m’en a parlé de manière très intelligente. Il sera un super atout pour HOLD ON TO ME et j’espère du coup qu’avec lui au casting, cela rameutera plein de jeunes adolescentes dans les salles pour les corrompre ! (Rires.) » Pour finir, Marsh nous a révélé l’acteur qu’il convoitait pour compléter le casting : « J’aimerais engager un acteur de la série GIRLS, Adam Driver. C’est un acteur génial, encore peu connu. Cela formera un super triangle avec Robert et Carey. » Un comédien formidable en effet, déjà vu dans J. EDGAR, et qui sera prochainement dans LINCOLN de Steven Spielberg, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS des Coen, THE F WORD avec Daniel Radcliffe ou encore FRANCES HA de Noah Baumbach.

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"rough" translation about Rob's part....

"Robert is interesting: he knows where he wants to go and he wants to work on projects that help to make as COSMOPOLIS. He uses his fame and power to help people like me to make interesting films. It has a lot of potential. When we met, I loved his attitude towards cinema. He loved the script and told me so very intelligent. It will be a great asset to HOLD ON TO ME and I hope with him to suddenly casting this rameutera full of teenage girls in the rooms to corrupt! (Laugh.) "

source: @clarabelg1 via ROBsessed

"Hold on to me"... another *NEW* role for Robert Pattinson....

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Carey Mulligan
from Deadline

As packages firm up for AFM, here’s one that will surely reverberate in Santa Monica. Robert Pattinson is signing on to star with Carey Mulligan in Hold On To Me. The film will be directed by James Marsh, who won an Oscar for the docu Man On Wire and followed with Project Nim.
Pic is based on a true story about a femme fatale who with her boyfriend kidnaps and ransoms the town’s richest man. They bury him in a box and things go horribly awry. Pattinson plays the flashy supporting role of the woman’s life love, Jimmy, who isn’t involved in the crime. The project was scripted by Brad Ingelsby.
Indian Paintbrush’s Steven Rales, Mark Roybal and Michael Pruss are producing with Alexandra Milchan. Also producing is Todd Field, who originally developed the film to direct, but stepped off to helm Creed of Violence for Cross Creek.
Pattinson adds this to an early 2013 schedule that will have him starring opposite Guy Pearce in the David Michod-directed The Rover, and he is also starring in Mission Blacklist, the true story of the U.S. military interrogator responsible for discovering the location of Saddam Hussein in the hunt for the fallen leader. He is repped by WME and 3 Arts.

from The Playlist 

Pattinson will join Carey Mulligan in the previously announced "Nancy And Danny" which is now called "Hold On To Me." But this isn't some swoony romance. Pennedy by Brad Ingelsby ("Out Of The Furnace"), and set to be directed by James Marsh ("Project Nim," "Shadow Dancer") the story follows a money hungry woman, whose life didn't turn out the way she wanted, who uses a man as a pawn to help land her high school crush in a get-rich-quick scheme. And that plan is to bury the town's richest man in box and hold him for ransom, but of course, things don't go as their supposed to. 

The film also brings Pattinson into the orbit of another great filmmaker, Todd Field, who is producing the project after being originally attached to direct (he's now focusing on "The Creed Of Violence"). Now before anyone gets too excited, this is a package project headed to the American Film Market which means if it doesn't get some decent pre-sales, it ain't gonna happen. But Pattinson is clearly done with blockbusters for the moment, and we like everyone involved, and given the talent on board, we don't see why this can't make a planned 2013 shoot.

from The Wrap 

Robert Pattinson may sink his fangs into "Hold On to Me," his manager told TheWrap.
The "Twilight" hunk is in talks to play Carey Mulligan's lover in the romantic drama, directed by James Marsh, who made the Oscar-winning documentary "Man on Wire."
In the film, Pattinson would play a character named Jimmy who is manipulated by the money-hungry social-climber portrayed by Mulligan. She hatches a plot to kidnap and bury the town's richest man. Suffice to say, things don't go as planned on the way to easy street.
Pattinson has become a teenage sex symbol thanks to his role as the brooding vampire in "Twilight," but he has shown an eagerness to avoid being typecast as Byronic objects of lust in an array of roles in indie films like David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis"(2012).
On deck for Pattinson are "The Rover," a futuristic western opposite Guy Pearce, and "Queen of the Desert," a historical drama that will find him playing T.E. Lawrence for Werner Herzog, the idiosyncratic director behind "Fitzcarraldo."
He will also stick on the pointy teeth once more in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2," which will start inducing mass-swooning among preadolescent girls on Nov. 16.

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James Marsh

from FirstPost 

James Marsh was asked about his new project a the Mumbai Film Festival. Here's what he had to say about it:
"My next movie is an independent American film, and it’s a comedy, (laughs) but a very cruel and nasty one. It’s inspired by one of those great American true crime stories that can only happen in America, I guess. It’s about a beauty queen who is getting older and gets her dumb boyfriend to kidnap the richest man of that small town for ransom, failing to receive which, they plan to bury him alive. I’ve been working on the screenplay with a writer at the moment. The actress in the story is British though — Carrey Mulligan. I think she’s a great actress and does a very good American accent. I’ve wanted to work with her for quite some time, and she liked the script. I’m glad to moving away from thrillers and documentaries on this one! "

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