My most favorite movie ever is Elizabeth, (the Cate Blanchette version) due to my ability to watch it endlessly over and over and not tire of it in any way. It's so layered and complex in characters, costume, make-up, history and interpretation. I own the dvd and have watched it a ba-zillion times. Not only is the movie itself great, but even better is the director's commentary.I could listen to Shekhar Kapur go on forver, and I have. The movie shows an innocent loving teenager slowly transform into a cold sexless semi-religious icon, capable of commanding awe and weilding power.
Imagine my excitement when I sat in a little mall theater in Butte, Montana, and saw a trailer for a second installment by the same director, looking even more fantastical in costume, and this time with Clive Owen as her romantic interest. On his blog he has written the following about the new film still in production:
It seems most likely that my next film is going to be Golden Age, not quite a sequel, but second in the trilogy that I always thought 'Elizabeth' would be. It will star Cate Blanchette once again as Elizabeth.
The film will also star Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Samantha Morton and Micheal Sheen, amongst others.
'Elizabeth' was about Power. It was about survival, innocence, love betrayal and ruthlessness, all in the context of Power.
This second film is about Immortality. It is what happens to people when they are in positions of absolute power. They then aspire to 'Divinity' and feel they are set apart from 'other mortals'. The third, when it is made much later, will be about Mortality. What happens when people have considered themselves Immortal or Divine, face their own mortality.
We are still finishing the Script. This film starts about 10 years after the last one left off. On the larger political level, the film is about Elizabeth's conflict with Phillip the 2nd of Spain, who was the most powerful man in the world then. And who had sworn to turn the world Catholic, whatever the cost.
On a personal level the film deals with one of Elizabeth's greatest romantic involvements in her life, with Sir Walter Raliegh.
Trailer here:
http://www.shekharkapur.com/goldenage/
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