Ian Fleming

James McAvoy on THE HOBBIT and Ian Fleming Movie Rumors; Plus I’M WITH CANCER Talk

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: January 10th, 2010 at 5:37 pm

When you’ve a well respected actor that everyone thinks is great, there will always be rumors about what you might do next.  For James McAvoy, those rumors include playing Bilbo Baggins in Guillermo del Toro’s The Hobbit, and a more recent rumor that he’s going to star as Ian Fleming in a biopic that Animus Films is developing.

But according to McAvoy, it’s all rumors and nothing more.  Regarding the Ian Fleming movie, McAvoy says he read the script a long time ago but he never spoke with the producers, so he doesn’t know where the story originates from.  He also denies The Hobbit story.

Hit the jump to see exactly what he had to say…plus he talks about his next film, I’m With Cancer, which Jonathan Levine (The Wackness) is directing.

James McAvoy to Possibly Star in Ian Fleming Biopic

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: December 29th, 2009 at 9:01 pm

Pajiba reports that Palmstar Entertainment and Animus Films are developing a biopic of James Bond author Ian Fleming with James McAvoy attached to play the lead.  Currently titled Ian Fleming, the biopic would focus on the years that gave Fleming his inspiration to create the twelve novels and two story collections featuring MI6 super-spy James Bond.  Apparently, Fleming was just a playboy in his early days but his experiences in World War II changed his life and caused him to become the creator of the semi-autobiographical 007.

McAvoy sounds like a solid choice for this role.  He has the charisma to portray a playboy but perhaps with a little delusion that he’s as charming and as lethal as his fictional counterpart.  The actor has been keeping busy as he wraps production on Robert Redford’s The Conspirator, and is attached to Wanted 2 and to co-star with Seth Rogen in the drama-comedy I’m with Cancer.  Pajiba speculates that the $40 million biopic could slide between these two movies, but I always work under the impression that the film that gets full financing first wins.  If Ian Fleming has the money it needs, then it’s good to go once a director comes on board.

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