variety.com - 6/13/2008
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Film stars Hilary Swank as aviator Earhart Christopher Eccleston will share the cockpit with Hilary Swank in "Amelia," the Mira Nair-directed Amelia Earhart biopic for Avalon Pictures and Fox Searchlight. Eccleston, who jumped from the NBC series "Heroes" to playing the villain role in Paramount's "G.I. Joe," will play Earhart's navigator, Fred Noonan. Noonan flew with Earhart when her plane ...
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Christopher Eccleston Joins "Amelia"
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Fans of "Dr. Who" and "Heroes" aren't necessarily the same sort of people interested in biographical period pieces about famous female aviators, but for those fourteen people that fit both categories, your dream has come true. British actor Christopher Eccleston ("28 Days Later", "G.I. Joe") has joined the cast of Mira Nair's "Amelia," as Amelia Earhart's ill-fated navigator Fred Noonan. He joins a cast that includes Hilary Swank as Earhart, Richard Gere as her husband George Putnam, Virginia Madsen as Putnam's ex-wife, and Ewan McGregor as Earhart's lover Gene Vidal. Noonan was flying with Earhart on ...
Christopher Eccleston checks in with ‘Amelia’
The Screening Log —
The cast keeps growing for Mira Nair’s upcoming biopic “Amelia,” and the latest to board the project is Christopher Eccleston, according to Variety. The film takes a closer look at the life and career of Amelia Earhart, who became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic by herself in 1937. Hilary Swank will play the title character, with Eccleston starring as her navigator. Also on board are Ewan McGregor, Richard Gere and Virginia Madsen. Eccleston is known for his appearances on “Doctor Who” and ...
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Vulture —
... Eccleston Flies the Disappearing Skies: Christopher Eccleston (Jude in Jude the Obscure; Destro in G.I. Joe) will be joining Hilary Swank in the cockpit for Amelia's ill-fated flight, playing Earhart's navigator Fred Noonan, a navigator that she in no way regretted hiring. Nope, no sir, definitely not. [Variety] ...
Eccleston to Get Lost With Amelia
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews —
Bring a map on that flight, Christopher Eccleston.
News in Variety today that Christopher Eccleston has joined the ever-growing cast of the Amelia Earhart biopic starring Hilary Swank. Now apparently called Amelia (I guess they figured Lost was already taken), the film also stars Richard Gere, Virginia Madsen, and Ewan MacGregor. Mira Nair is directing.
Eccleston is set to play Fred Noonan, the navigator who was flying with Earhart when her plane disappeared over the Pacific on July 2, 1937, while she was attempting a round the world flight. Noonan was born in Illinois and began life life on ...
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Variety.com 6/13/2008
Los Angeles: Film stars Hilary Swank as aviator Earhart -- Christopher Eccleston will share the cockpit with Hilary Swank in "Amelia," the Mira Nair-directed Amelia Earhart biopic for Avalon Pictures and Fox Searchlight.
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