Jack Thorne
Nacimiento : 1978-12-06, Bristol, England, UK
Historia
Jack Thorne is an English screenwriter and playwright who has written for radio, theatre and film. Thorne began his TV career writing on Shameless and Skins, before writing Cast Offs in 2009. He has since created the shows Glue, The Last Panthers, Kiri and The Accident. He is also the writer of the television adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. He has won five BAFTA awards: Best Mini-Series for This is England ’88, Best Drama Series for The Fades, Best Single Drama for Don't Take My Baby, Best Serial for This is England ’90 and Best Original Series for National Treasure.
Thorne's feature film credits include The Scouting Book for Boys, War Book, A Long Way Down, Wonder (starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson) and The Aeronauts (starring Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne). Thorne is also a prolific playwright, having written the critically acclaimed The Solid Life of Sugar Water, Hope, The End of History, and adaptations of Let the Right One In at the Royal Court, and Woyzeck (starring John Boyega) and A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic. He also wrote the stage play for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child based on an original story by Thorne, J.K. Rowling, and John Tiffany, which won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2017 and the 2018 Tony Award for Best Play.
Writer
In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under Sir John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.
Writer
Una historia del viaje milagroso realizado por las hermanas nadadoras Yusra y Sarah Mardini que huyeron como refugiadas de la Siria devastada por la guerra para vivir una nueva vida en Europa y la oportunidad de competir en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de 2016.
Executive Producer
The untold disability civil-rights love story of two cabaret performers, Barbara and Alan, who met at a gig, fell in love, and became the driving force behind an unprecedented campaign of direct action that ultimately led to the passing of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act.
Writer
The untold disability civil-rights love story of two cabaret performers, Barbara and Alan, who met at a gig, fell in love, and became the driving force behind an unprecedented campaign of direct action that ultimately led to the passing of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act.
Writer
Sarah parece haber encontrado su vocación trabajando en un hogar de ancianos de Liverpool, donde tiene un talento especial para conectarse con los residentes. Luego, en marzo de 2020, llega la pandemia de Coronavirus.
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Two visionary talents, playwright Jack Thorne and director Matthew Warchus, offer a magical new interpretation of Charles Dickens’ classic story. This timeless—and timely—tale of redemption welcomes theatergoers of all ages into an immersive experience that’s brimming with Christmas spirit, with dazzling staging, moving storytelling, and 12 of the most cherished Christmas carols, including “Joy to the World,” “Silent Night,” and “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear.”
Screenplay
Enola Holmes, una intrépida joven que busca a su madre, utiliza su brillante instinto investigador para superar a su hermano Sherlock y ayudar a un lord en su fuga.
Screenplay
Mary Lennox tiene 9 años y vive con sus padres en la India donde su padre trabaja para el gobierno inglés. Cuando los padres mueren a causa del cólera, Mary es enviada a vivir a una inmensa mansión con su malhumorado y solitario tío (Colin Firth) y su estricta ama de llaves (Julie Walters). Allí la niña se encontrará sola en una mansión con más de cien puertas (la mayoría cerradas) y un jardín amurallado donde con la ayuda de la fantasía y en compañía de su enfermizo primo y un joven del pueblo, emprenderán una maravillosa aventura.
Screenplay
Cuenta la historia de la ganadora del Premio Nobel Marie Curie y sus extraordinarios descubrimientos científicos, a través del prisma de su matrimonio con su esposo Pierre, y los efectos sísmicos y transformadores que su descubrimiento del radio tuvo en el siglo XX.
Executive Producer
Año 1862. La piloto Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) y el científico James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) deciden embarcarse en un viaje para descubrir los secretos del cielo, volando en un globo aeroestático más alto de lo que nadie lo había hecho antes. Pero al llegar a las capas más altas de la atmósfera, ambos comienzan a tener problemas con el oxigeno y la altitud, viéndose forzados a luchar por su propia superviviencia.
Screenplay
Año 1862. La piloto Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) y el científico James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) deciden embarcarse en un viaje para descubrir los secretos del cielo, volando en un globo aeroestático más alto de lo que nadie lo había hecho antes. Pero al llegar a las capas más altas de la atmósfera, ambos comienzan a tener problemas con el oxigeno y la altitud, viéndose forzados a luchar por su propia superviviencia.
Story
Año 1862. La piloto Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) y el científico James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) deciden embarcarse en un viaje para descubrir los secretos del cielo, volando en un globo aeroestático más alto de lo que nadie lo había hecho antes. Pero al llegar a las capas más altas de la atmósfera, ambos comienzan a tener problemas con el oxigeno y la altitud, viéndose forzados a luchar por su propia superviviencia.
Screenplay
Basada en la novela hómonima, Dirt Music explora la vida de una pareja y su relación dolorosamente apasionada. Georgie (Kelly Macdonald) es una chica australiana que se siente rota por su relación actual con el pescador Jim Buckridge (David Wenham), ella pasa su tiempo admirando los paisajes de su nación hasta que conoce al cazador Lu Fox (Garrett Hedlund), un joven forastero, bastante interesante y misterioso, a quien encuentra pescando en una zona prohibida. Poco a poco ambos se conocen y la pasión entre ellos no tarda en salir a la luz, lo que pronto les provoca graves problemas a ambos. Cuando Jim se entera de aquella relación quiere venganza, sin embargo, Fox decide retirarse al norte de Australia para evitar una terrible confrontación. En su travesía, el cazador atraviesa zonas peligrosas y contaminadas, sin embargo, este es el menor de sus problemas pues debe cubrir sus huellas del hombre que desea atraparlo.
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Un niño de 10 años (Jacob Tremblay, conocido por 'La habitación') nacido con una deformidad facial que le ha obligado a ser operado 27 veces de cirugía, se esfuerza por encajar en su nuevo colegio.
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Government officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear threat.
Writer
Factual drama which tells the story of a disabled couple's agonising struggle to keep their newborn baby. Based on real-life testimony, this emotional tale will call viewers' prejudices and beliefs about the disabled community and society as a whole into question, as we learn about a situation many disabled couples find themselves in as new parents. Can 21-year-old wheelchair user Anna and partially-sighted Tom provide the care and attention their daughter needs, or will social worker Belinda have to consider alternative care?
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Cuatro personas se reúnen por casualidad en el tejado de uno de los edificios más altos de su ciudad para saltar al vacío. En esas situaciones, un poco de cortesía nunca está de más, pero puede traer un cambio de planes radical: tras un rato hablando, deciden que quizá sea mejor idea volver a bajar y ver qué son capaces de hacer.
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Mbwana and his best friend Juma are two young men with big dreams. These dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourist hot-spot as a result. But for Mbwana, the reality isn't what he dreamed – and when he meets the fish again, both of them forgotten, ruined and old, he decides only one of them can survive. Jonah is a big fish story about the old and the new, and the links and the distances between them. A visual feast, shot though with humour and warmth, it tells an old story in a completely new way.
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Thomas Turgoose (This Is England) stars as David, a young boy who lives a carefree life on a coastal caravan park with his best friend Emily (Holliday Grainger). When David learns that Emily is being forced to move away, he helps her hide out in a remote cave on the beach. But as David watches the police close in on his missing friend, their innocent secret takes on a life of its own. When the real reason Emily wants to escape comes to light, David's world is shattered. Swept up in a situation out of his control, and with his feelings for his best friend growing stranger by the day, David is forced to take action.
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Tercera entrega de la saga Tron.
Screenplay
The story will follow a medium who convinces her husband to kidnap a child so she can help the police solve the crime and achieve renown for her abilities. When her true intentions come to light, however, her husband realizes the plan threatens to consume them both.
Screenplay
In the wake of a fractured marriage, a man goes to find his wife and the entire crew of a space station who have gone missing. As he explores the ship, he discovers the truth about their disappearance and is forced to confront his own role in losing her.
