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Keira Knightley and director Joe Wright reteam for a third time on Anna Karenina, which Focus Features will release in select cities November 9. It’s got a pretty stellar team: adapted by Tom Stoppard and co-starring Aaron Johnson, Jude Law, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Ruth Wilson, Olivia Williams, and Emily Watson among others. Oh yeah, it’s from a novel by some guy named Tolstoy. It’s definitely got the look of Atonement, the last Knightley-Wright tie-up that earned an Oscar Best Picture nomination in 2008 (it has the same producers in Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner and Paul Webster). But it’s certainly seems more sweep-y, which the classic Russian novel certainly deserves.
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I like the cast. It's especially good to see Aaron Johnson branching out after
Kick-Ass to do stuff like this and
Savages.
And I have to see this based on Tom Stoppard's involvement alone. After
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and
Shakespeare in Love, he's got a pass for life from me.