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Films featuring Ian McKellen

Latest news about Ian McKellen

  • Nolan drops The Prisoner (19th August 2009)
    Nolan had signed up to turn the 1968 show - which starred Patrick McGoohan - into a big budget blockbuster, but he has now quit the production amid rumours he is planning to start work on his third Batman movie early Nolan's departure has thrown The Prisoner into jeopardy - producer Barry Mendel admits they might not get the green light for the project until movie executives have gauged the success of the new TV version, which stars Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel and is set to air later this year (09) Mendel tells CineFools, '’Nolan has dropped out of it but we have a first draft (of the script) by David and Janet Peoples who wrote Twelve Monkeys...
  • McKellen not Da Vinci fan (16th May 2006)
    Sir Ian McKellen isn't a huge fan of The Da Vinci Code despite starring in the big screen version of the novel...
  • Tom Hanks' commando role (5th May 2006)
    Tom Hanks didn't wear underwear while he was shooting The Da Vinci Code...
  • Hanks' hairy movie (19th April 2006)
    The Da Vinci Code movie has been thrown into chaos after test audiences confessed they hated Tom Hanks' hairstyle...
  • Ratty Winslet's dirty role (10th December 2004)
    Kate Winslet is set to play a sewer rat in a forthcoming film...
  • McKellen brands Will Smith homophobic (5th October 2004)
    Sir Ian McKellen has accused Will Smith of being homophobic...
  • BAFTA's - Lord of the Rings Orange Film Of The Yea (17th February 2004)
    FINAL PART OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY WINS ORANGE FILM OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR THIRD TIME IN SUCCESSION The biggest night in the British film calendar, the Orange British Academy Film Awards, attracted some of the leading names from the big screen to London’s Leicester Square...
  • Gandalf gets Tattoo (13th November 2001)
    Ian McKellen and the rest of the LORD OF THE RINGS actors who make up the film's Nine Walkers have been tattooed to cement their bond...