Enigma 2000 News Archive
December 21, 2000
Added a new Article: "Enigma - Michael Apted sets cinema history righht!" - Film Review The Essential 2001 Review
December 14, 2000
Intermedia, the production company behind "Enigma", reports the film will screen in the prestigious Premieres section of the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, on Monday January 22, 2001.
December 7, 2000
According to the CountingDown website, back on November 18th, "Michael Apted was at the recording sessions of "Eternal Echoes," last John Barry Album. He hired Barry to write the musical score for "Enigma." Dont forget Barry wrote music for similar movies such as "Hanover Street."
BBC
News spreads the word about the
"Enigma" premiere at Sundance Film Festival. Click here
to read he article.
-
Thanks to my pal Marla and her FilmLover2 - In
Admiration of Kate Winslet website for the finds!
December 6, 2000
According to Variety, "Enigma" will make it's US
premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2001. Added 3 Articles:
"Indie Stars Stud Sundance"
- 12/05/00 Variety
"Mystery
Machine - He's a sort of accidental hero" - The Essential 2001
Preview Film Review
"Mystery
Machine - She is kind of a true heroine" - The Essential 2001
Preview Film Review
December 5, 2000
Added several new Articles today:
"Enigma
Test Screening Review" from Gunnlace Magazine
"The Word" from Reel.com
and 'Ready for Closeups"
from the NY Post - Thanks to Marla's FilmLover2
- In Admiration of Kate Winslet website for the latter two!
November 30, 2000
According to today's Variety and Inside Film, "Enigma" is expected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The festival runs January 18 through January 28, 2001. Click on Variety or Inside Film for the complete articles.
November 22, 2000
Film Industry reporter, Army Archerd, reported in yesterday's Variety
:
"Also in London next week will
be Michaels to shoot a new ending for "Enigma" -- "in the
interest of clarity.""
(Lorne Michaels is co-producer.)
Jeremy Northam gives us a very small insight into his "Enigma" character, Wigram, from yesterday's The Daily Telegraph: ""I play a complete bastard!" he exclaims with glee".
November 20, 2000
Added a new Article from the December 2000 issue of Empire. Click here to read it.
Good news for fans who have been following the stolen real-life Enigma machine. According to today's The Daily Telegraph, Dennis Yates, 57, has been charged with stealing the Enigma device from Bletchley Park museum in April. He was arrested on Friday and will appear in court Monday.
November 3, 2000
On October 30th, LineOne Entertainment reports that Mick Jagger has completed his producer duties on "Enigma", but still no news as to a US or UK release date.
October 14, 2000
And 1 new Article, "Apted's Aptitude" from Film Review Special # 32 - Thanks to Krysha!
October 13, 2000
Added 2 new photos of Dougray and a new article, "Jagger Gets Satisfaction With 'Enigma'", from the November issue of Premiere magazine.
October 8, 2000
Added a new Photo and Article from Variety "Taking Shelter" about "Enigma" today.
October 4, 2000
Dark Horizons posted a review
today from the test screening of "Enigma". Click here to check
it out (positive/no spoilers).
Yesterday, Coming Attractions posted the following:
October 3, 2000... Thanks to a friend in our biz we were
placed in contact with an individual who recently
saw a test screening of Enigma. They generally liked what they saw and filed this
report for us:
Note: contains spoilers. Click and drag your mouse over the space below to highlight the text.
"This is a fair movie as it stands now. They told us at
the start that the special effects were incomplete.
They did look cheap, ie. a toy boat in a tub of water with something exploding next to it.
I did not care
for any of the characters' lives, as they did not write in any details on them. Dougray
Scott did a good
job with his character of Tom Jericho, but the makeup made him look deranged and unkempt
with
dark circles under his red eyes one night and then 'cleaned up' the next morning. Kate
Winslet brought
a limited life to her character of Hester, a cog in the English war effort to crack the
German enigma
code. She falls in love with Tom. He however is infatuated with Claire and can't
understand why she
dumped him a month earlier causing a breakdown. Other characters pop in and out of the
story. 'Puc'
is introduced late in the movie as are his tie-ins with the plot. All this is going on
while a wolf pack of
U-boats zeros in on a convoy crossing the Atlantic. They asked a group to stay after the
movie to
discuss it and had ally of us fill out a 2 page survey on it. Hopefully they'll listen and
have a better,
more drama/action/suspense movie when it's released."
[That's from LJS in SJ.]
September 29, 2000
Enigma Test Screening:
Some lucky movie-goers in Saratoga, California were fortunate enough to attend a test
screening of "Enigma" Tuesday evening. People arriving at the theater
with plans to see a movie were treated with last minute tickets for "Enigma"
(which is typical fare for how unannounced test screenings are conducted). Test
screenings are conducted by studios to get a preliminary response from audience members,
be it bad or good. This gives the studio the opportunity to go back and make any
adjustments or edits they deem necessary to enhance the final product. The screening
was went well, and given that it took place in the US, strengthens the hopes for US fans
that "Enigma" will be released in the States, although no release date
was mentioned.
- Thanks to ">JB" who was one of the lucky ones!
And from Coming
Attractions:
Ladies and gentlemen, the shortest test screening review we've ever
seen: "caught a test screening 9/27/2000. Mostly finished... some sound needs to
be fixed, the score isn't done, computer effects need to be added, but all in all it
shaped up nicely. not much else to tell about it, really." [We need more,
anonymous!]
According to today's The Times and The Daily Record, Mick is currently in L.A. on post-production with "Enigma".
September 14, 2000
- Added an article "New
Ransom Demand for Enigma" about the stolen Enigma machine,
- Added 2 new links: Zelluloid (German-llanguage) Enigma website
(click here for English version) and Fetal
Film's Enigma
webpage. The Zelluloid site reports the German release date will be March 29,
2001.
Still no word on any other release dates yet.
September 13, 2000
Added several articles about the stolen Enigma machine* to the Articles page.
(* This Enigma machine, one of three that is left, was stolen back in April of this year.)
September 7, 2000
Added "Hollywood Revisionism" to the Articles page.
September 2, 2000
Added "Mick Jagger Enlists in WWII Film" to the Articles page.
August 31, 2000
Jeremy Northam who plays Wigram in "Enigma" has signed to co-star again with Gwyneth Paltrow ("Emma") in the upcoming film "Possessed" along side Jennifer Ehle (Elizabeth Bennet in "Pride and Prejudice" and Sophie in "This Year's Love"). Read the complete Hollywood Reporter article here.
August 29, 2000
Added 2 new Articles:
"Enigma Variations" - a Saffron Burrow interview
"Sufferin' Saffron" to the "Enigma" Film Page. -
Thanks to my pal Marla and her FilmLover2 - In
Admiration of Kate Winslet website for the find!
August 22, 2000
Added an April 4th article from Netscape Celebrity News to the Articles section.
August 14, 2000
Added an article with photos from the August issue of Flicks magazine to the Articles section.
August 10, 2000
Added a brief update to the Articles section: "What Mick Said to 3am's Jessica" (excerpt)
August 9, 2000
Added a photo-blurb (photo with small article) of Dougray and Kate on the set of Enigma from the June 12, 2000 issue of Australia's NW magazine to the Articles section.
August 8, 2000
Added "The Boat Comes In To Bletchley Park" to the Articles section along with a link to an interesting site about British wireless intercept services and Enigma during WWII, called the Royal British Legion Branch - Garats HaY along with a site where you can Take a tour of Bletchley Park online.
August 1, 2000
Added a new article, "Mick Jagger Admits Problems on Enigma Set".
July 30, 2000
Updated the Cast page, added 4 new Enigma Photos and 2 new Articles from the August issue of Total Film and today's L.A. Times.
July 15, 2000
The August issue of Empire magazine lists "Enigma" as #6 in the "Top 20 movies in the Works".
July 7, 2000
Added 2 new Articles today on "Enigma" and a photo of Tom Hollander. The Tom Hollander article from yesterday has been enlarged so you can read the text.
July 6, 2000
ENIGMA WRAPS - Shooting ended on Thursday 29 June on the Michael Apted directed film of Robert Harris' best selling novel. The film, which stars Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Jeremy Northam and Saffron Burrows, was filmed in locations close to the original "Station X" (Bletchley Park), London, Scotland, Devon and the Netherlands, and is set for release in 2001. - from the official Enigma website
Added 3 Articles today, one on Saffron Burrows, one on Tom Hollander and one from April 18th on the beginning of the Enigma production.
Also added a new Photo of Kate Winslet - thanks to my pal Marla's FilmLover2 website!
July 3, 2000
Dark Horizons has a photo of Dougray kissing Kate (similar to the People mag photo) from Total Film thanks to his contact "Goose". It's been added to the Photos page.
July 2, 2000
"Enigma" has completed filming.
Added a new Article from the Daily Mail with a photo of Dougray as Tom Jericho.
June 13, 2000
Last night's Entertainment Tonight reported that Dougray lost 22 pounds for the role of Thomas Jericho. If you missed last night's Entertainment Tonight, check out 5 new Photos of Dougray on the set of "Enigma" and then click here to read the transcript, thanks to my pal Marla and her "Film Lover 2 Enigma" website.
"Enigma" went on location to Quorn, a charming little village north of Leicester, England to film
from June 5 thorugh June 8. To read about the filming there, click here. To see
photographs of the set, including several of Dougray, click here. Be sure
to check the Quorn website for more
"Enigma" details.
Thanks to Faith
for the heads-up and to ds.com for the find.
Also added 2 more Articles dated June 8.
Dark Horizons gives "Enigma" and Intermedia Films a little P.R. in today's Headlines with a photo of Dougray and Kate.
June 12, 2000
Entertainment Tonight had a brief interview with Mick Jagger tonight in which they showed some brief shots of "Enigma" including a wonderful shot of Dougray which we'll have posted here tomorrow.
Added a new Photo of Saffron Burrows today (thanks to my best pal Niki for the find!) on the set of Enigma along with a new Article.
Look for many more Enigma updates tomorrow!
June 8, 2000
I wrote to Intermedia Films yesterday requesting clarification on the infamous People magazine photo. Here's the reply I received from them this morning:
Thank you for your
mail and for bringing this to my attention. The picture is of Dougray Scott together
with Kate Winslet on the set of ENIGMA, which was taken while the production was on
location in Trafalgar Square on Monday 29th May. I have contacted People.com to
advise them of this error.
Best wishes,
Philip Rose
Also added a new Article about Saffron Burrows
today. Here's an excerpt from it:
"When we spoke again
this month, she was just back from Amsterdam, where she's been shooting opposite Kate
Winslet in Enigma, directed by Michael Apted (of Seven Up fame), about the Second World
War code-breaking centre."
Once again, thanks to my pal Marla and her wonderful "Film Lover 2 Enigma"
website for the find!
June 7, 2000
I've received numerous emails from fans over the recent photo from People,
where Kate is reported kissing co-star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The majority of fans
believe it to be Dougray, while a strong minority do not. Once again, thanks to my pal
Marla and her wonderful "Film Lover 2 Enigma" website, shares with us that someone who
claims to be "Enigma" author, Robert Harris, posted a note yesterday on the Unofficial Kate Winslet Fan Club message
board, which in part reads:
"I can tell you that the picture is of Kate kissing Dougray Scott, that it is in the
movie, and that it was filmed in Trafalgar Square about ten days ago."
Only Mr. Harris can say for certain that he did in fact post the message - so I leave it up to you to decide who Kate is kissing and if Mr. Harris wrote the note. I've sent several letters off to different sources requesting confirmation on the photograph. So if and when I hear from them, I'll be sure to post it here.
June 3, 2000
Added some Photos of the other "Enigma" cast members, including one that I swear is Dougray, even if the capture says it Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Also added an Article "Sunk by the Yanks Again" from The Mirror (UK).
From Intermedia's
website, a June 2nd Update:
After two weeks filming in Holland, shooting has resumed in locations north of London on
the Michael Apted directed film of Robert Harris' best selling novel. Production is
scheduled to be completed at the end of the month.
Most of today's updates are courtesy of my pal Marla's "Film Lover 2 Enigma" website!
June 1, 2000
Just a Kate blurb, not worth putting the the Articles section, but enough to share here:
Mum's The Word For Kate
Neal Travis - Pagesix
It doesn't take a decoding genius to see
that Kate Winslet soon will be a mama. She's kissing co-star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau the
other day in London while shooting "Enigma," about how the Brits secretly
cracked German codes in World War II.
May 30, 2000
Three new "Enigma" Articles added today, thanks to my pal Marla's Film Lover 2 Enigma for the headsup! Val reports that she read about a Dougray and Kate photo in today's issue of the Daily Mail (UK). If you have access to this tabloid and can send me or Marla a scan, we'd greatly appreciate it!
May 17, 2000
A new photo of Dougray and Kate today along with new Article thanks to Marla's Film Lover 2 Enigma and Josie's Kate Winslet websites!
May 16, 2000
I learned today from Showbiz Data, that Paramount Pictures is also one of the production companies behind Enigma, which means that we in the States have an excellent chance to see Enigma when it's released.
May 14, 2000
Added 3 Articles about "Enigma" today. Thanks to Marla's Film Lover 2 Enigma" website and Barbara.
May 10, 2000
Slow news day today. Added a business Article about Enigma, thanks to Marla's Film Lover 2 Enigma" website!
May 9, 2000
P.M. Update:
Added two more Articles this afternoon: "I'm Not So Titanic, Says Pregnant
Kate", "Intermedia: Where the
Money Is" (Intermedia owns the rights to "Enigma").
Tom Stoppard, who wrote the screenplay for "Enigma", is among
four new recipients of the Order of Merit, conferred by the Queen, Buckingham Palace has
announced. He has also been nominated for a Tony Award in four categories, for his
play "The Real Thing", including Best Revival of a Play.
Sources: Yahoo News and PDR
A.M. Update:
Dark
Horizons and Ain't It Cool News also report on the "Enigma" Script Review
this morning.
Added an short article from yesterday's Online Mirror "Kate's Big Issue" (thanks
to Marla's Film
Lover 2 Enigma" website!)
May 8, 2000
The guys over at CHUD come through again for us with an "Enigma"
Script review!
Click here to
read the review (Positive with minor spoilers).
Also added the Article from Heat magazine that accompanied the pictures
below.
Thanks to Marla and her "Film Lover 2 Enigma" website!
May 5, 2000
Thanks to Garth's Dark
Horizons website, we get some new on-set photos from Heat magazine
thanks to his tipster, "Goose"!
Tom Holland, joins the cast of "Enigma". Read more about
his "Enigma" experience and the brief
mention accompanying the Now magazine photo on the brand new Articles page. Another special
Thanks to Marla and her "Film Lover 2 Enigma" website for the find, along with The Kate Winslet
Fan Club for the Now magazine photo! Be sure to check out the great sites!
May 4, 2000
IMDb Movie/TV News
Mick Jagger's On Set Visits To Enigma
Rock star MICK JAGGER and author ROBERT HARRIS are ditching their day jobs
to lend a hand on the set of KATE WINSLET's movie Enigma (2000). Jagger,
whose company JAGGED FILMS is producing the movie about British World War II
code-breaking, has paid regular visits to the set - and was joined this week
by the author of the hit novel on which the movie is based. Spokesperson
LINDA GABLE says, "Sadly you won't ever see Mick in the movie because that
would be too distracting, but he does visit quite regularly, and you will
see his own personal Enigma machine briefly in the film. It's one of the
rare four rota machines." She continues, "The author Robert Harris has been
along for a few days to see his characters in the flesh." Apart from the
minor stir whenever Jagger turns up, the movie is well on schedule and
unaffected by Winslet's pregnancy. Gable says, "We're on track to finish by
the end of June. Everything's going smoothly. And Kate's pregnancy hasn't
been a problem at all - I haven't seen any busloads of beetroot or marmite
arriving to satisfy her cravings or anything!"
Articles Copyright , World Entertainment News Network
~~~~~~~~~~
May 4, 2000
Variety Extra
English film an 'Enigma' for Senator Winslet to topline pic
By Liza Foreman
BERLIN -- German film distributor Senator Film has ventured into its first English-lingo production.
Company is set to co-produce the Intermedia Film Distribution project "Enigma," which will be directed by Michael Apted and stars Kate Winslet. Senator's CEO Hanno Huth is one of three exec producers on the film in addition to Intermedia's Guy East and Nigel Sinclair.
Amberlon Pictures, Senator's London-based sales company, will handle sales of the continental European rights.
Worldwide revs
In addition to these rights, Senator will also get a slice of worldwide revenues.
"Enigma," based on the bestseller by author Robert Harris, is about a couple of young mathematicians in Britain in 1943 who are trying to crack the Enigma Code of a German U-boat.
Film will be produced by Mick Jagger's Jagged Films and Lorne Michael's Broadway Films.
© 2000 Variety
May 3, 2000
Empire Magazine
"Enigma"
Starring: Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows
Director: Michael Apted
Adaption of Robert Harris' bestseller, starring Scott as the brilliant young man who has to race against time to crack a complex German code. Kate Winslet's name has also been mentioned in association with the project, scheduled to film this spring.
ETA: tba
Thanks to Marla and her "Film Lover 2 Enigma" website for the find!
May 1, 2000
The Online Mirror
MICK'S SOHO COOL
Rolling Stone Mick Jagger may be a 57-year-old father-of-seven, but he still likes a night out. I'm told the old rogue and his pals had a wild evening in London. After downing a few drinks in Soho, the superstar and his posse moved on to the Noble Rot.
Guests at the glitterati's latest hot spot in Mayfair stood goggle-eyed as the boys knocked back beer and champagne well into the early hours. But Mick - a bachelor again after being divorced by Jerry Hall - wasn't ready for bed.
Near to the Noble Rot is the rather exotic establishment, The New Georgian Club, which opens until 3am. My spy saw Mick and crew slip into the joint. Mick is certainly cutting a rug on the social scene. There's barely an A-list party where he hasn't been seen.
Jagger is currently overseeing production of Kate Winslet's new movie Enigma in Milton Keynes while polishing off a script for Martin Scorsese.
"Mick's been out and about," said a pal. "He has always enjoyed a laugh."
I'm sure he has - and if he fancies dragging me along to meet such a wealth of beautiful ladies I'm well up for it.
Just so long as Mrs Wright doesn't find out.
Thanks to Marla and her "Film Lover 2 Enigma" website for the find!
April 29, 2000
Intermedia Film
Published April 18, 2000
London, 18 April, 2000 - Shooting began in England this week on Intermedia's Enigma starring Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Jeremy Northam and Saffron Burrows. A romantic thriller based on the international best-selling novel by Robert Harris, Enigma is to be directed by Michael Apted and produced by Mick Jagger's Jagged Films and Lorne Michaels' Broadway Films.
Adapted for the screen by Tom Stoppard, Enigma is produced by Mick
Jagger and Lorne Michaels. Executive producers are Intermedia's Guy East and Nigel
Sinclair, Senator Films' Hanno Huth, and Victoria Pearman and Michael White. David Brown
is co-producer. German-based Senator Films, one of Germany's leading independent
distribution and production companies, has acquired all rights for continental Europe and
participates from worldwide gross receipts.
Steeped in the atmosphere of wartime England, this mystery of codes and code breaking,
love and betrayal set inside the birthplace of the computer age, has much contemporary
relevance in today's world of the Internet and computer hackers.
In March 1943, the code breakers at Bletchley Park, Britain's top secret Station X, are
facing their worst nightmare: Nazi U-boats have unexpectedly changed their Enigma code and
a merchant shipping convoy with 10,000 people on board is in peril. The authorities turn
for help to Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott), a brilliant young mathematician and code breaker.
Unknown to his colleagues, Jericho has another equally baffling enigma of his own to
unravel: Claire (Saffron Burrows), the woman he loves has disappeared and he suspects
there may be a spy in Bletchley. To get to the bottom of both mysteries, he enlists the
help of Hester (Kate Winslet), Claire's best friend.
Director Michael Apted (The World Is Not Enough) has assembled a star cast headed
by rising star Dougray Scott (soon be seen in Mission Impossible Two, starring
opposite Tom Cruise) and Kate Winslet, Academy Award nominated star of the worldwide
blockbuster Titanic. Jeremy Northam won this year's London Evening Standard Film
Award for Best Actor for his performances in The Winslow Boy and An Ideal
Husband. Saffron Burrows' recent screen appearances include Renny Harlin's action film
Deep Blue Sea.
Award winning playwright Tom Stoppard last year won the Academy Award for best screenplay
for his script of Shakespeare in Love.
Supporting cast includes Corin Redgrave (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Tom
Hollander (Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence).
Robert Harris's Enigma was first published in the UK in 1995, with the paperback edition
remaining in the Top Ten Bestseller List for fifteen weeks. To date the novel has sold
over one million copies internationally and has been published in translation in 23
countries around the world.
Enigma is the first film to go before the cameras from Jagged Films, the company
formed by Mick Jagger and Victoria Pearman in 1995. Future productions include "The
Map of Love", the dramatic love story of Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin, and
"The Long Play", written by Jagger, Rich Cohen and Martin Scorsese, with
Scorsese set to direct this insider's look at the music business and the Machiavellian
world of hit-making.
Lorne Michaels is the creator and executive producer of the legendary Saturday Night
Live. Among his film producer credits are Wayne's World, Tommy Boy and
the forthcoming Ladies Man.
Intermedia is a diversified entertainment investment company with offices in London, Los Angeles and Munich, which develops, finances and distributes motion pictures in collaboration with leading producing partners. Its films include Sliding Doors, The Land Girls, Hilary and Jackie, Playing By Heart, Sweet and Lowdown, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? Love's Labour's Lost, Up at the Villa and Where The Money Is as well as such forthcoming titles as Where The Heart Is, Company Man, Blow Dry, The Wedding Planner and Therese Raquin.
A special Thanks to Marla and her "Film Lover 2 Enigma" website for the find!
April 28, 2000
Newsday
By Liz Smith
MICK JAGGER might not be Jerry Hall's idea of an always considerate guy, but the stars of "Enigma," a World war II drama being produced for the screen by Jagger and Lorne Michaels, think he's swell-and smart. To get the cast-Kate Winslet, Jeremy Northam, Dougray Scott-in the proper mood, Mick made his own CD compilation of songs from the '40s, to be played on the set and in private as well. (Everybody got their own copy.) By the by, Miss Winslet is a few months pregnant, so all her scenes are being pushed ahead, before she really starts to show. Still, it's an arduous shoot-from 6 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. most nights, in dear, soggy old England.
April 24, 2000
This Is London
Home & Garden
English film director Michael Apted, now based in Hollywood, has rented a
three-bedroom apartment through Arlington Residential in Little Venice while he's back in
this country directing his new film, Enigma, starring Kate Winslet. Similar properties in
the area are let for around £1,500 a week.
April 22, 2000
The Mirror (article dates April 21,
2000)
IS IT COAT WINSLET? ALL CHANGE FOR NEW MOVIE ROLE
Beneath a long coat, anorak, stern specs and a shock of red hair, Kate Winslet is a far cry from the beautifully tailored English blonde of Titanic.
Movie fans would have been hard put to spot the glamorous guest of this month's Bafta Film Awards in her new guise.
But her professionalism won Oscar-style tributes from fellow cast members on the set of Enigma, a movie adaptation of Robert Harris's best-seller about Britain's wartime code-breakers.
Kate, 25, and film director husband Jim Threapleton are expecting their first child in September. And the weather during shooting in Lea Valley, Herts, was foul enough for icebergs.
But the mum-to-be soldiered on. Kate gained early brownie points by traveling around the set with the rest of the cast in a minibus, leaving her chauffeur driven Merc on the sidelines. And she won sympathy on a few flying visits to the loo. One onlooker said: "She emerged looking a bit green. Someone suggested she might be suffering a touch of morning sickness and that would seem to add up.
"But if she is, it hasn't stopped her being a real trouper.
"She stood around for ages in the rain and it was a really long day - she worked from about 8.30am until 7pm."
April 19, 2000
Urban Cinefile
Shooting started this week in England on Mick Jagger's first
film - as a producer. Enigma, starring Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet, Jeremy Northam and
Saffron Burrows is a romantic thriller based on the novel by Robert Harris and is directed
by Michael Apted (The World is Not Enough). It is set in wartime Britain in the world of
espionage and code breaking.
Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of the legendary Saturday Night Live, is Jagger's producer partner. Among his film producer credits are Wayne's World, Tommy Boy and the forthcoming Ladies Man.
Movie
Mafia
Yanks Reshape History in Enigma
"Mission: Impossible 2" baddie Dougray Scott is out to show the Yanks they can't
pretend to have broken the German Enigma code in World War 2. Scott heads the cast in a
new British movie which claims to be the true story of what happened with Enigma.
Dougray Scott, the ultra-baddie in Tom Cruise's soon-to-be-released "Mission Impossible 2", will lead the British mission to show worldwide cinema audiences what wankers the Hollywood bosses are, rewriting World War 2 history to suit their own agenda.
Scott and a line-up of top British talent will star in "Enigma", which tells the true story of the British heroes who cracked the German code and even captured the Enigma machine.
Last week the American movie "U-571" opened in The States, depicting ala fantasy, a special team of Yankee warriors who broke the Enigma code and stole one of the code machines.
Bond director Michael Apted (The World Is Not Enough) is about to roll the "Enigma" cameras in England.
"Shakespeare In Love" Oscar-winning scribe Tom Stoppard has written the screenplay and stayed close to the real events.
Now, the Brits strike back with the truth!
Jam Movies!
Scorsese, Jagger to Write Script - Excert, for complete article,
click here
Jagger's production company is also producing a picture about the life of Welsh poet Dylan
Thomas and his wife, Caitlin. The compnay's first feature will be an adaptation of the
Robert Harris thriller Enigma. The film stars Kate Winslet
and is directed by Michael Apted.
Mr.
Showbiz
Jagger Channels His Jumpin' Jack Past Into Two Films - Excert, for
complete article, click here
Through his production company, Jagged, the rocker is developing other projects, including
a biopic about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife, Caitlin, and the thriller Enigma,
in which Kate Winslet will star.
Mr. Showbiz (February 24, 2000)
Kate Winslet Pregnant - Excert, for complete article, click here
The actress is negotiating to fit in one more film project
before she becomes a mother. She's eyeing another historical role for The World Is Not
Enough director Michael Apted.
The film, Enigma, is based on Robert Harris' best-selling World War II novel about the race to break a German code. Dougray Scott (Ever After, Mission: Impossible 2) and Saffron Burrows (Deep Blue Sea, Time Code) will also star. Tom Stoppard, who shared an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love with Marc Norman, wrote the script with Hannah Weg.
According to the Reporter, filming is scheduled to begin this spring in London. The film, budgeted at more than $30 million, does not yet have a U.S. distributor.
April 18, 2000
Yahoo UK Reuters News
Jagger Turns Hands To Movie Script About Pop Star
By Paul Majendie
LONDON (Reuters) - Rock veteran Mick Jagger has turned his hand to writing a film script
about a pop star and the "Machiavellian world of hit-making".
The Sixties bad boy of rock, famed for his swivelling hips and pouting lips, has teamed up on the script with acclaimed Hollywood director Martin Scorsese who will make the film. "It is an insider's look at the music business and the Machiavellian world of hit-making," said a spokeswoman for the Rolling Stones singer's movie company, Jagged Films.
"I imagine he will bring his own experiences to bear but it will be a work of fiction," she told Reuters on Tuesday. She said it was far too early to say who would star in the film which has been provisionally entitled "The Long Play".
The movie is being billed as a no-holds-barred expose of the pop world and Jagger, famed for his philandering ways and hedonistic lifestyle, certainly has the inside track on excess. This is just one of a number of projects being developed by his production company which is also planning a biopic about the life of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife, Caitlin.
The first feature to be finished by Jagged Films will be an adaptation of the Robert Harris thriller "Enigma" about the battle to break German secret codes in World War Two. The film, starring "Titanic" heroine Kate Winslet, is being directed by Michael Apted, who led a 650-strong crew in the latest James Bond blockbuster "The World is Not Enough." Playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Oscar for his part in writing the much garlanded "Shakespeare in Love", is collaborating on the script.
Jagger, now 56, became fascinated by the plot of Enigma. He visited Bletchley Park, the nerve centre for Britain's Nazi code-breakers, and bought an Enigma code-breaking machine used by British counter-intelligence officers in the war.
Jagger, whose roles in front of the camera have included "Performance" and "Ned Kelly," has spoken of ambitious plans to make 200 million pounds of big budget movies over five years. Among other projects being considered are a love story about the South American guerrilla leader Che Guevara which would star screen heart Antonio Banderas.
Independent News
April 18, 2000
Act I, scene one: enter famous rock star, pen in hand
Film scripts about rock stars are two a penny. But the latest one is a little different: the writer is Mick Jagger and the script might be as near as we will come to a Jagger autobiography.
He has completed the script, which deals with the rise of a rock phenomenon and his relationships with his parents and later his own family.
Last night a spokesman said that at present there was no Jerry Hall figure planned for the film. He also denied reports that Jagger was working with the American director Martin Scorcese on the script, though the director's macho image and tense, sexually aggressive films would no doubt appeal to Jagger's own self-image.
The script is Jagger's own, and no director has been signed up. He has been burning the midnight oil, an associate said, to write down his thoughts on starting out in the music business.
If the script is truly about the early Jagger, the first half of the film could be dull. Last month the singer's father said Mick was "a very pleasant boy" who looked after his brother, worked hard at school and enjoyed family holidays.
And a coming memoir by the Rolling Stones' first manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, will say the band were clean-living and well-behaved until Oldham foisted their bad-boy image on them so they could be seen as a contrast to the Beatles.
But as the film moves into the Sixties and alludes to Jagger's turbulent and frequent sexual liaisons, it would be anything but dull.
Jagger has always rejected overtures from biographers and turned down offers from publishers to write an autobiography, saying his memories of the Sixties are confused. But close friends doubt it. Jagger is a shrewd businessman and guardian of the Stones' place in rock history. He monitors coverage of their affairs closely. If he needed to, he would be able to recall all the key incidents in the band's career.
He seems certain to place the script with his company, Jagged Films. Its first film, an adaptation of the Robert Harris bestseller Enigma, is in production, with Kate Winslet in the lead role. It also stars Jeremy Northam, who was in The Winslow Boy and An Ideal Husband, and Dougray Scott, who appeared in This Year's Love and is soon to be seen in Mission Impossible 2. Saffron Burrows, recently seen in Deep Blue Sea, and Corin Redgrave will also feature.
The thriller is directed by Michael Apted, who helmed the latest James Bond film, The World is Not Enough, and co-scripted by Sir Tom Stoppard.
Among other projects being planned is The Map of Love, about Dylan Thomas and his wife, Caitlin.
Film Unlimited
Jagger and Scorsese Collaborate on Film Script - Excert, for complete
article, click here.
Jagged films currently has at least three films in development, including The Map of Love,
a biopic of Dylan Thomas and Enigma, an adaptation of the Robert Harris thriller starring
Kate Winslet, which is currently in production in the UK.
Sky
News
Legends Jagger and Scorsese To Film Music Expose - Excerpt, for complete
article, click here.
His production company Jagged is currently working on Enigma with pregnant Titanic
star Kate Winslet. Based on Robert Harris' best-selling novel the thriller is
directed by James Bond director Michael Apted. It is co-scripted by Sir Tom Stoppard the
screen-writer for the award winning Shakespeare in Love. Another rock
industry movie is also in the pipeline for Jagged – a comedy called Swap.
Megastar (February 25, 2000)
Kate IS Pregnant - Excerpt, for complete article, click here.
"Winslet would be able to fit Enigma into her schedule
before her next big production - the birth of her first child," said the Hollywood
Reporter. She is lined up for the lead role in the movie based on Robert Harris's
bestselling novel about breaking Nazi codes in the Second World War. Mick Jagger is
one of the producers. The movie will also star British actors Dougray Scott and
Saffron Burrows. Scott races against time to break a German code and solve a mystery
in the £20m film.
April 17, 2000
LineOne News
JAGGER AND SCORSESE SET FOR FILM TEAM-UP - Excerpt,
for complete article, click here
By James Morrison, Showbusiness Correspondent, PA News
Jagged's first film, an adaptation of Robert Harris bestseller Enigma, is currently in
production, with pregnant Titanic star Kate Winslet in the lead role. The thriller
is directed by Michael Apted, who helmed the latest James Bond film, The World is Not
Enough, and co-scripted by award-winning Shakespeare in Love screenwriter Sir Tom
Stoppard. Jagger also has another rock'n roll industry movie in the pipeline, a
comedy called Swap. Enigma went into production today. Alongside Winslet, it stars
award-winning actor Jeremy Northam, who starred in The Winslow Boy and An Ideal Husband,
and Scottish heart-throb Dougray Scott, who appeared in This Year's Love and is soon to be
seen in Mission Impossible 2. Actress Saffron Burrows, recently seen in Deep Blue
Sea, and Corin Redgrave will also feature.
© Press Association
BBC Online Entertainment
Jagger Moves Into Movies - Excerpt, for complete article, click here.
But the first film to be finished by Jagged looks likely to be an adaptation of the Robert
Harris best-selling thriller Enigma.
The movie is already in production with Titanic and Holy Smoke actress Kate Winslet in the
lead.
Michael Apted, who directed the latest James Bond saga The World is Not Enough, is at the
helm, while Shakespeare in Love screenwriter Tom Stoppard has collaborating on the script.
April 16, 2000
The Discover Kate
(Winslet)'s website reports: "Kate will be filming Enigma in
Holland for 2 weeks! She will arrive in Holland around May 8. Mick Jagger will also come
over. Co-producer of Enigma is the Dutch filmcompany Mullholland Pictures, the company of
Jeroen Krabbe, Ate de Jong en Edwin de Vries." Check out Discover Kate for more
information.
Marla's Film Lover 2 - Enigma website reports: "Linzi" reported (on the kwfc mb) that she attended an "extras" casting call today for scenes to be shot in the next two weeks at Chichley Hall. She attends a college on the Bletchley Park site." Check out Film Lover 2 - Enigma for more information.
April 13, 2000
Found a July 13, 1999 USA Today news
article describing Mick Jagger's involvement in "Enigma".
Excerpt below, for complete article, click here.
Enigma, a love story and espionage thriller about the Allies breaking a German code to help bring an end to World War II, is adapted from the best-selling novel by Robert Harris. Tom Stoppard is writing the script, which will be directed by Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist, Nell). "I worked closely with Stoppard on the second draft of Enigma," Jagger says. "I don't want to be a carping busybody, but sometimes you've got to be a sounding board."
Jagger explains his increased involvement in film production as a simple progression of interest.
April 12, 2000
The Peters Fraser & Dunlop
Group Limited
Michael Apted has started pre-production on ENIGMA, adapted by Tom Stoppard from the novel
by Robert Harris and starring Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows, Kate Winslet , Nikolaj
Coster-Waldau and Nicholas Rowe.
© The Peters Fraser
& Dunlop Group Limited
The official "Enigma" website was updated today with casting updates as well, adding Jeremy Northam.
April 11, 2000
Independent News
Televisions Seven Ages of Man - (Michael Apted article, excerpt - for
complete article, click here)
By Fiona Morrow
Does he think that interest may wane in his own subjects as they enter middle age? "I
doubt it. Getting older is another part of life we all have to cope with, so there is no
reason for us not to wanting to see how others are coping. My own life has been frankly
tumultuous over the past few years."
He refers to a divorce and a new marriage; at 59 he is the proud father of a six-week old
baby boy. The beautiful apartment in London's Little Venice is rented for the duration of
his new film's shoot, and he can't wait for his wife and baby to join him from their home
in Los Angeles. He's working on an adaptation of the Robert Harris novel Enigma
starring Dougray Scott and the increasingly pregnant Kate Winslet.
April 7, 2000
ET Online
Winslet's Enigma
The beautiful KATE WINSLET is getting ready to star in yet another period piece, this time
teaming up with director MICHAEL APTED ('The World is Not Enough').
Shooting on the upcoming feature 'Enigma' is set to begin on April 18th, and co-stars the talented DOUGRAY SCOTT ('Ever After') and SAFFRON BURROWS ('Deep Blue Sea'). The story is set in 1943 England, and revolves around a genius "code cracker" (Scott) who has already broken the Nazis' Enigma Code for U-Boats, and now he must do it again. The other element thrown into the mix is that one of his fellow British code breakers may be a spy -- so he must put on his detective's hat and solve that mystery as well.
Shooting in England, 'Enigma' will be unveiled in theaters sometime next year.
April 6, 2000
Empire Online
Jagger Saves Covert Operation
Police have not yet cracked the mystery of a prized prop stolen from
Bletchley Park, the former spy base that serves as the setting for Enigma, the new
film about British codebreakers in WWII. The prop in question, a genuine wartime encoding
machine worth £100,000, went missing from the country house at the weekend.
But now Mick Jagger–whose production company Jagged Films is making the film–has sidled in to save the day. The singer, who is fascinated by secret intelligence work, has offered his own wartime codebreaking machine, purchased a few years ago at auction for the sum of £50,000, for the crew to use “in case filming depended on it.”
Jagged Films has reassured their anxious backer that the project “remains fully on
schedule.” The film’s star Kate Winslet has also been striving for authenticity.
It was reported this week that the actress had been quizzing veterans of the wartime
operation as background research for her role.
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For more about the theft, read the following BBC articles:
April 2, 2000 "Enigma Machine Stolen"
April 3, 2000 "Reward
Offered for Coding Machine"
April 5, 2000 "Man
Released After Code Machine Theft"
April 5, 2000 - several news articles today:
BBC Entertainment
Online:
Pregnant Kate Winslet In Film Race
Against Time
Pregnant Kate Winslet is to cram all her scenes in spy movie thriller 'Enigma' into
the first weeks of filming - to stop her bump showing on the big screen. With shooting
starting in days (17APR00), movie-makers are anxious the British star finishes her part as
a World War II codebreaker in under a month. Meanwhile, they will try to hide her
four-month pregnant bump with baggy clothes on set. Linda Gamble, spokeswoman for
production company Jagged Films, says, "Kate's pregnancy means we will have to do all
her scenes first. "She is very excited about the role. She has twice visited the
museum at Bletchley Park where Britain's secret code-breaking HQ was during the war."
Winslett has also telephoned real-life British codebreaker Mavis Batey, 78, for advice as
she researches the part.
Popcorn:
Winslet In A Hurry To Shoot "Enigma"
British actress gets a bumpy ride on her new movie.
In what may be a first, it looks like Kate Winslet won't be getting her kit off in
her new movie, 'Enigma'.
The 'Holy Smoke' star is already four months pregnant, so the film's producers are
dressing her in baggy clothes to avoid any telling signs of her bump. (Presumably it was
either that or a script rewrite.)
Filming on 'Enigma' commences on April 17, with all of Winslet's scenes having to be shot
in the first month. She will then take a pregnant pause before shooting 'Therese Raquin'
next year.
Click here to read an interview with Kate Winslet
talking about 'Holy Smoke' and her future projects.
© Copyright 2000 Carlton Online
Popcorn:
Kate's An "Enigma"
No pause for pregnant star.
No one can accuse Kate Winslet of taking things easy during her pregnancy.
The 'Titanic' star may be carrying her first
child (with husband James Threapleton) but that's not stopped her signing on to the
adaptation of Robert Harris's 'Enigma'.
The film, scripted many moons ago by Tom Stoppard, is expected to commence shooting this spring, with Winslet starring alongside Dougray Scott ('This Year's Love') and Saffron Burrows ('Deep Blue Sea' - stop tittering!).
'Enigma' is set during World War II and follows a brilliant codebreaker (Scott) who's trying to crack an impenetrable German code, thus solving a long-standing mystery.
Mick Jagger is producing the thriller, which has been in development for several years
and costs $30million. It has yet to attract a US distributor.
© Copyright 2000 Carlton Online
March 31, 2000
Spreading the news about "Enigma" are the "sewer-chewers" over at CHUD and the
cast at Cinescape
Online. Thanks guys!
March 28, 2000
The Official Enigma
Website
According to the official site, they report two start dates for filming - April 17 and April 18, but regardless, they state filming will be at locations near Bletchley Park.
March 23, 2000
BBC Radio 1 Online
Holy Smoke Premiere (excerpt - for complete article, click here)
Mick Jagger is producing Kate's next film, ‘Enigma’, which is having to be shot in the space of five weeks, due to her pregnancy. Kate doesn't do much for Jagger’s reputation as the wild man of rock - she says he’s just an ordinary bloke and they’ve even been for a pub lunch together: "I’ve only met him a couple of times and that’s been in an informal way, so I’ve yet to hear him singing or doing anything live. I’m sure he will at some point," she said.
March 2000
Total Film
Dougray Scott: nice or Nazi?
Those rattled by Hollywood's attempts to rewrite history with an Americanised take on the British cracking of the Enigma code in upcoming U-boat actioner U-571 are permitted to breath a gasp of relief. A GB-stamped rival has just surfaced.
Adapted by Shakespeare in Love scrawler Tom Stoppard from the novel by writer Robert Harris, Enigma spins a tale of conpsiracy, romance, spies and subs as the vital work of a British World War Two code-cracker is jeopardised when he discovers his duplicitous girlfriend is a Nazi spy.
No word yet on who'll play the naughty Nazi lady, but Dougray Scott - recently elbowed out of the role of X-Men Wolverine thanks to Mission: Impossible 2's never ending shoot - has inked on to play the troubled cipher cruncher. The World Is Not Enough's Michael Apted whirrs the cameras this coming April.
Thanks to Grace for sending this!
March 20, 2000
Ain't It Cool
News
William Wallace files a report on the state of Scottish cinema
Mick Jagger's Jagged Films is producing a version of Thomas Harris' WWII thriller ENIGMA which will be partly shot in Scotland. Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist) will direct the story of a young man who realizes his girlfriend might be a German spy while he struggles to crack Nazi U-boat codes. The cast includes Scotland's own Dougray Scott (Singer's original Wolverine), Saffron Burrows (Deep Blue Sea) and Kate Winslet. Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) has adapted Harris' novel and changed the climax from straightforward shoot-out to a duel between a U-boat and the RAF on a remote Scottish coastline. Locations are currently being sought in Edinburgh and Argyllshire.
March 17, 2000
Dark Horizons
Enigma: Shooting is scheduled to begin on April 17th for the WW2 drama
"Enigma" starring Kate Winlslet and being produced by Mick Jagger's film
company. The first few days of filming take place in a country house in Chicley, with
production utilising a $30 million budget - a very large sum for a UK-produced movie.
Jagger and a pregnant Winslet were recently seen in the nearby town of Bletchley Park, the
place where the German code was first broken by the Allies during WW2. The pair were only
there though to get an original decoder (which Jagger owns) fixed. Michael Apted directs
the movie which also stars Dougray Scott, and the filmmakers seem to be aiming for a
release date sometime late 2000 or in 2001.
March 16, 2000
The Electronic Telegraph
Motherhood, Mick Jagger and me - excerpt (For complete
article, click here)
...But next she will play a role in Enigma, a film adapted by Tom Stoppard from Robert Harris's novel about the Second World War code-breakers at Bletchley Park. The film's executive producer is none other than Mick Jagger, who impressed cast members by taking them up to Bletchley last week, and showing them around. He has real enthusiasm for the subject.
"I suppose I shouldn't say this," says Winslet, who goes on and says it anyway, "but when I heard about Mick, I thought, huh, wonder why he's so interested in producing films? But he was terrific. And he did something very sweet. He made up compilation CDs of 1940s music for all the cast, which really impressed me. That's just the kind of thing actors like as a way to think themselves into a period. And most executive producers, you think of them sitting in offices, taking money decisions. You don't expect them to be hands-on. So Mick impressed me."
In Enigma, she plays a key code-breaker called Hester: "I'll work for four weeks in April before I get too big." And then? "I'll be lying flat on my back," she says with a laugh. "Those people who slagged me off over my weight can have a real go at me then. I'm fully intending to blow up like a real barrage balloon."
© Telegraph Group Ltd. 2000
March 16, 2000
The Movie Mafia
Stars to swap Oz location Stories
Enigma stars Kate Winslet, Saffron Burrows and Dougray Scott, with The World Is Not Enough director Michael Apted in charge of proceedings.
Winslet spent nearly three months in Australia last year with Sydney-based director Jane Campion for Holy Smoke, co-starring Harvey Keitel, who also headlined Campion's Oscar-nominated The Piano.
Dougray Scott was in Sydney for four months until late-November playing the chief villian in Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible 2.
Burrows, recently seen in Wing Commander and Deep Blue Sea, starred in the 1996 Aussie flick Hotel De Love.
Expect lots of stories about shooting movies Down Under. Thankfully, all three are high on what Australia has to offer for international film-makers; so the chit-chat should be all positive.
March 13, 2000
The
Syndey Morning Herald
Jagger and Winslet an enigma: There was something less than excitement at
Bletchley Park, home to the Second World War codebreakers, when Mick Jagger walked in last
Wednesday, unannounced, with a pregnant Kate Winslet on his arm.
The pair were on a recce for the film adaptation of Robert Harris's bestselling book Enigma, about the Bletchley Park team who broke the German ciphers.
Winslet plays the love interest in the film - due to start shooting on April 17 at nearby Chichley, another country house. Jagger's interest is that his own embryonic film company is making Enigma with a script by Tom Stoppard.
He is also a keen collector of military memorabilia and was carrying an original German three rotor Enigma machine.
He explained to the Bletchley Park museum staff that it was his, it was broken and he asked them if they would be kind enough to repair it.
"I was in a board meeting all day," says Christine Large, the director, battling to improve the museum. "I wouldn't have noticed if the Archbishop of Canterbury had turned up."
Nigel Reynolds © The Sydney Morning Herald 2000
March 9, 2000
Press Association
According to a Press Association release today, Enigma will start filming next month
(April).
February 29, 2000
The Peters Fraser & Dunlop
Group Limited
Robert Harris' novel Enigma to be filmed with a wealth of PFD talent.
PFD is delighted to be able to announce that Robert Harris' popular novel, ENIGMA, is to be made in to a film. His agent, Pat Kavanagh, feels that this is the perfect time for the adaptation. The screenplay has been adapted by Tom Stoppard, represented by Kenneth Ewing, and the project is to be directed by Michael Apted, a client of Anthony Jones.
The actors department is also well represented on this forthcoming movie. Lindy King's clients Saffron Burrows and Dougray Scott have both secured leading roles. Kate Winslet, who is represented by Dallas Smith, is to play the part of Hester.
February 24, 2000
The Hollywood Reporter
Winslet solves "Enigma" riddle
by Zorianna Kit
Kate Winslet is in negotiations to star in Intermedia Films' historical drama "Enigma" for director Michael Apted. Winslet would fit the project into her schedule before her next big production -- the birth of her first child to husband James Threapleton.
Shooting is slated to begin in London this spring with Dougray Scott and Saffron Burrows also starring. The film, budgeted at more than $30 million, does not yet have a U.S. distributor.
"Enigma" would again team Winslet with Intermedia's Guy East and Nigel Sinclair, who are developing "Therese Raquine," in which the actress will play the title role. "Enigma's" spring shooting schedule would allow Winslet to complete her role before her baby is due. The actress is still firmly committed to "Raquine" as her follow-up project, however no start dates have been determined.
Winslet plays the lead female role in "Enigma," based on Robert Harris' best-selling novel of the same name and set in Britain's historical code-breaking country house Bletchly Park. The script by Tom Stoppard and Hannah Weg cq tells the story of a brilliant young man (Scott) who races against time to break a German code and solve a mystery.
Mick Jagger and Lorne Michaels are producing the project. David Brown, Victoria Pearman and Intermedia's East and Sinclair are executive producing.
"Enigma" has been in development at Intermedia since the company picked up the project in turnaround from Paramount Pictures in 1998.
Intermedia is creating a Web site for the film in an effort to build interest.
Winslet is repped by WMA.
© 2000 The Hollywood Reporter
December 8, 1999
LineOne Entertainment
The Scottish actor DOUGRAY SCOTT is to star in Enigma, the film adaptation of Robert
Harris's best-selling book which is being produced by MICK JAGGER's production company.
Scott, who has just finished filming Mission: Impossible 2 in Australia, will portray a young man who struggles to crack Nazi U-boat codes during World War II when he realises his girlfriend might be a German spy.
Enigma, which will begin filming in England in April, will be directed by MICHAEL APTED, whose most recent film was the James Bond adventure The World Is Not Enough.
December 6, 1999
The Hollywood Reporter
Scott probes Apted's 'Enigma'
Dougray Scott ("Ever After") is in final negotiations to star
in the Michael Apted-helmed "Enigma," adapted by Tom Stoppard from the Robert
Harris thriller of the same name. Scott will portray a young man who struggles to crack
Nazi U-boat codes during World War II when he realizes his girlfriend might be a German
spy. "Enigma" will be produced by Mick Jagger's Jagged Films and Lorne Michaels'
Broadway Video. Guy East and Nigel Sinclair's Intermedia will handle financing and
worldwide distribution on the $15 million-$20 million project, which currently has no
North American distributor. Production is slated for an April start in England. Jagger
will co-produce with Michaels. East, Sinclair and Michael White will serve as executive
producers along with Apted, and Jagged Films' Victoria Pearman will co-executive produce.
Scott, who is repped by UTA, will also be seen in "This Year's Love" and the
upcoming "Mission: Impossible 2."