Keira Knightley is in talks to play the role of artists’ muse Effie Gray in period drama Untouched for Brazilian director Andrucha Waddington (House of Sand), reports Liza Foreman.

The project, which is being pre-sold at the AFM by Ealing Metro International from their new headquarters in the Loews Hotel’s fitness studio, follows the real-life love affair between this beautiful young woman, trapped in a “loveless,” unconsummated marriage to Brit art critic John Ruskin, and his protege, pre-Raphelite painter John Everett Millais. Knightley stars as a woman in the middle of another mentor-protege triangle in David Cronenberg’s upcoming A Dangerous Method (November 23), between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender).

The film is based on a script by Aleksandra Crapanzano. The producers are Barnaby Thompson (Easy Virtue), Lucia Seabra (The Last Summer of La Boyita), Maria Teresa Arida (Arbitrage) and Lauren Versel (Vamps). The project is part of Ealing Metro’s AFM slate which also includes the musical romantic comedy Goddess and The Account, an action thriller to be directed by Pete Travis.

A second film on the subject, written by Emma Thompson and her husband Greg Wise, was being sold at the market last year and was due to go into production mid-October with Dakota Fanning playing Effie. Some buyers were shown that promo at the AFM this year on an iPad.

Gray was born in Scotland and lived in Bowerswell, the house where Ruskin’s grandfather had killed himself. She was acquainted with Ruskin’s family from a young age. Ruskin wrote the fantasy novel, The King of Golden River for her when she was only twelve years old. Although he is said to have idolized her from a young age, he failed to consummate his marriage to her. The famous Victorian love triangle has been dramatized a number of times. Thompson’s project was held up by the fact that a playwright claimed that her script copied his play. Ealing is currently completing casting on the film.

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The gallery will be caught up on all the pictures from the Venice Film Festival & the Toronto Film Festival later tonight.

Now that Steve Carell (Date Night, Despicable Me) has left The Office television sitcom, he’s joining Keira Knightley (The Duchess) for the comedy “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World“, the film studio announced May 9.

Set in the near future, the story follows a man left alone when his wife flees as an asteroid falls toward earth. With his last days at hand, he decides to reunite with his high school sweetheart, despite his neighbor’s interference.

Screenwriter Lorene Scafaria (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist) will also direct the film, which begins shooting this month in Los Angeles and is due in theaters next year.

Carell will star in the dramatic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love co-starring Ryan Gosling (Valentine’s Day) and Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right) to be released July 29.

Knightley will appear next in David Cronenberg’s thriller A Dangerous Method with Viggo Mortensen (The Road, Hidalgo) and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, upcoming X-Men: First Class). (Source)

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011 x Public Appearances > 2011 > Visiting “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” – 05.10.11
001 x Public Appearances > 2011 > At “The Today Show” – 05.09.11
115 x Public Appearances > 2011 > Arriving at Taping of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” – 05.09.11

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015 x Public Appearances > 2011 > “The Children’s Hour” Press Night – 02.09.11
016 x Public Appearances > 2011 > “The Children’s Hour” After Party – 02.09.11
135 x Public Appearances > 2011 > The Jameson Empire Awards 2011 – 03.27.11
577 x Movie Productions > London Boulevard > Blu-ray Captures

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