Principal Photography Begins on Stranger Than Fiction
Posted on May 9, 2005
Principal photography has begun on Mandate Pictures' comedy Stranger Than Fiction directed by Marc Forster. Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah and Emma Thompson star in the comedy about one character's search for his author. The film was written by Zach Helm, his first produced screenplay, and is being produced by Lindsay Doran. Stranger Than Fiction will be released by Columbia Pictures in the United States and a number of international territories. In Stranger Than Fiction, Will Ferrell plays Harold Crick, an IRS Agent whose world is turned upside-down when he begins to hear his life being chronicled by a narrator only he can hear. The Narrator, Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson), a nearly forgotten author of tragic novels, is struggling to complete her latest and best book, unaware that her protagonist is alive and uncontrollably guided by her words. Forster was nominated for a Golden Globe and a Director's Guild of America Award in 2005 for directing Finding Neverland, starring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. The director first won international acclaim for Monster's Ball starring Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry. 20th Century Fox will release Forster's next film, Stay starring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling, this fall.
