Looks like Owl Song is really happening, with interesting background to the pre-production from Screen Daily.

Ben Chaplin joins cast of Peggy Glanville-Hicks biopic Owl Song. Ben Chaplin will play the young Yehudi Menuhin in Owl Song, the story of Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks which is being produced by MusicArt Dance Films in Australia. Neve Campbell has been cast as Glanville-Hicks, Maria de Madeiros reprises the role of Nin that she played in Henry and June and JJ Field will play Glanville-Hicks’ husband Stanley Bate.

Kevin Lucas co-wrote the script with John Wregg and will direct. Glanville-Hicks trained under Nadia Boulanger and became a well-known figure in the mid-century beau monde alongside Menuhin, Anais Nin and Paul Bowles. She was tragically cut down in her prime. The actors have committed to study composition, music and piano as well as rehearsing the script at the Royal College of Music in London where they have been given access to personal hand-written scores, letters and recordings by the real-life characters they are portraying.

 

IMDb have added JJ to a new film in production called Barafundle Bay. There is a great blog on the film making progress with some photos of JJ and his co-stars. Follow the film on Twitter too.

JJ's character in this comedy drama, currently being filmed in Wales, is called Miles. Film Agency Wales have more details:

Produced by Margaret Matheson, Vaughan Sivell and Kelly Broad, 'Barafundle Bay' – a project that has been noted as one of the top as yet un-produced scripts by [Variety] -is written by Welsh born writer/producer Vaughan Sivell of Western Edge Pictures. Director Hattie Dalton, who is widely recognized as being rapidly on the rise, will work alongside Sivell.

Barafundle Bay' is a touching and life affirming comedy about four friends re-forging the bond that they once enjoyed, as they take their last trip together along the coastline of West Wales. 'Barafundle Bay' tells the hilarious and moving story of a young man with terminal cancer who asks his three best friends to take him on one last riotous camping trip to his favorite beach.

Forum member Ima turned up news that JJ has been cast in a Doctor Who audio drama called Blue Forgotten Planet, which looks like being broadcast / available for download in September. The Big Finish website and thedoctorwhosite have details.

In other news, the cast of Blue Forgotten Planet (September) has been confirmed. JJ Feild (who starred in the BBC's The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North) plays David McCallister, Alec Newman (Children of Dune) plays Ed Driscoll, and Andree Bernard (The Shakespeare Code) is Ellen Green. The story stars Colin Baker's Doctor and India Fisher as Charley Pollard.

 

 

JJ's agent's site Ken McCreddie.com lists a new TV production called Pure Mule, as the character Tom, directed by Declan Recks. Yet Centurion is still not listed.

Thanks to forum member Ima for spotting a video clip of JJ attending the London Film Festival premier of The Hunger last October.

JJ can be seen about 1 minute 40 secs into the video.

Empire Online have posted that JJ is curently filming Centurion in Scotland and Surrey.

Olga Kurylenko stars alongside Hunger’s Michael Fassbender, who plays the title character, stranded behind enemy lines, and a superb roster of established and up’n’coming talent, including Dominic West, Noel Clarke, David Morrisey, JJ Feild and Riz Ahmed (soon to be seen in the rather excellent Brit-grit thriller Shifty, out April 24).

Centurion is being produced by Slumdog Millionaire Oscar-snaffler Christian Colson and Robert Jones (Run Fatboy Run) and Empire has visited its sets in both Scotland and Surrey and witnessed the action and intensity up close, so expect regular updates online and in the magazine, in the build up to its release (likely to be later this year).