Bonnie and Clyde (miniseries, 2013)

Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger to Star as 'Bonnie and Clyde' for Lifetime/History


The Borgias' Holliday Grainger and Into the Wild's Emile Hirsch have signed on to play the legendary couple in the miniseries from Smash's Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
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The four-part miniseries revolves around the infamous bank-robbing pair, with Hirsch playing Clyde Barrow, the charismatic armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker off her feet. Grainger's Bonnie is described as a small-town waitress who longs for romance. She becomes Clyde's cohort in crime, picking Clyde over her beleaguered mother.
Grainger and Hirsch take on the title roles played by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in the Oscar-nominated 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. Miley Cyrus was attached to play Bonnie in the project but dropped out.
In a Broadcast News reunion, Oscar winner William Hurt will play Frank Hamer, a Texas Ranger known for his involvement in tracking and killing the 1930s outlaws, and Academy Award winner Holly Hunter will portray Emma Parker, Bonnie's mother.
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The Lifetime/History project, the first of its kind to air on both AETN networks, is being produced by Smash EPs Meron and Zadan, who are set up at Sony Pictures Television.
Hirsch, whose credits include Milk, Speed Racer and Savages, is repped by WME, the Collective and Sloane Offer. He next appears in Universal's Lone Survivor. Grainger's résumé include recent feature remakes of Great Expectations, Anna Karenina and Jane Eyre. She's with Troika and IFA.

The joint Lifetime/History four-hour miniseries about one of history’s most infamous couples has cast the leading roles. Bonnie & Clyde will star Holliday Grainger and Emile Hirsch as the bank robbers who went down in a hail of gunfire.

Holliday Grainger takes on the part of Bonnie Parker, a role that Miley Cyrus was in talks for months ago. That deal fell through, and the project has gone on to find a new leading lady. Grainger has plenty of experience with period pieces, although she tends to appear in much older periods – she recently starred in Showtime’s The Borgias and also appeared in the Keira Knightley version of Anna Karenina. I imagine she’ll be grateful to ditch the corsets for this new role.

Cast as Bonnie’s soulmate and bank-robbing partner Clyde Barrow is Emile Hirsch, whose career has mostly been on the big screen in a lot of indie films. Among his credits are the starring role in the Oscar-nominated Into the Wild, the Sean Penn film Milk and just recently Prince Avalanche with Paul Rudd. He did plenty of TV guest roles back in the 90’s on shows like ER and NYPD Blue but this will be his first TV role in over a decade.

Deadline says the two will join already-cast Holly Hunter and William hurt for the mini-series. Driving Miss Daisy director Bruce Beresford is on board to direct. In an unusual move, the Lifetime developed and produced mini-series will also air simultaneously on sister channel History. It marks the first time something like that has been attempted by the family of A&E network channels.

BONNIE AND CLYDE: DEAD AND ALIVE featuring Holliday Grainger starts shooting in Louisiana on March 25th!

Sono l'unica che non conosce la trama di Bonnie e Clyde? La conoscerò presto presumo, quando mi fisso con le attrici dire che mi faccio tutta la filmografia è dir poco.

Same XD comunque io ho visto un documentario su quelli veri diciamo, è stata una coppia di fuorilegge legati nel lavoro e nella vita rimasti poi uccisi a 23 e 25 anni. La cosa che mi interessa particolarmente è vedere Holly che fa la fuorilegge XD devo ammettere che così a caldo non ce la vedo.