The Moon & The Sun (aka The King's Daughter)

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deadline.com/2021/10/the-kings-daughter-gravitas-ventures-acquires-pierce-brosnan-film-1234859061/

‘The King’s Daughter’: Gravitas Ventures Nabs Rights To Fantasy Film Starring Pierce Brosnan & More, With Narration By Julie Andrews
By Matt Grobar 

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to The King’s Daughter, a family adventure film starring Pierce Brosnan, William Hurt, Kaya Scodelario, Benjamin Walker, Rachel Griffiths, Pablo Schreiber, and Bingbing Fan, which is narrated by Oscar winner Julie Andrews, setting it for a theatrically exclusive release at upwards of 1000 locations across the U.S. and Canada on January 21, 2022.

Sean McNamara’s film, shot at the Palace of Versailles, is based on Vonda N. McIntyre’s 1997 novel The Moon and the Sun. It centers on King Louis XIV (Brosnan), whose quest for immortality leads him to capture a mermaid’s (Fan) life force, seeing his immovable will challenged when his long-hidden illegitimate daughter (Scodelario) forms a bond with the magical creature.

Barry Berman and James Schamus handled the screenplay adaptation. Veteran family film producers McNamara and David Brookwell produced for Brookwell McNamara Entertainment, alongside an international group of producers from Australia to America to France.

“Gravitas is proud to bring the magical world of ‘The King’s Daughter’ to theaters and homes across North America,” said Gravitas Ventures Founder and CEO Nolan Gallagher. “This is an impressively created film and moving story that families can enjoy together.”

“I’m so excited for the North American audience to see The King’s Daughter in theaters this January,” added McNamara. “There is only one Julie Andrews and she has blessed audiences around the globe with her lovely voice and amazing story telling. Please join her as she narrates our story of the mythical mermaid who lives in the fountains of Versailles.

Added the director-producer: “Romance, adventure, and true love really do exist with Kaya Scodelario (Marie Joseph) and Benjamin Walker (Yves). In fact, after making this movie they fell in love in real life and started a wonderful family. The incomparable Pierce Brosnan as King Louis XIV radiates a vision of immortality that will enchant us all. Get ready to fall in love with the most beautiful mermaid in the world played by the truly talented Fan Bingbing. Enjoy the ride!”

The King’s Daughter is the first of eight films Gravitas is planning to bring to more than 1,000 screenings, with significant P&A support, in the coming years.

Recent releases from the distribution company, founded in 2006, include Michael Lembeck’s Queen Bees; Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Our Friend, starring Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson, and Jason Segel; Vanguard, directed by Stanley Tong and starring Jackie Chan; and Andy Tennant’s The Secret: Dare to Dream, starring Katie Holmes.

Gallagher negotiated the King’s Daughter acquisition deal with Ramy Choi.

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At least !!! Many thanks

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[Barbara]

In movie theatres only? DAMN. Omicron better be gone by then!

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Hopefully it will make its way to an online platform quickly after release.

[Barbara]

This is what I am hoping too. And for those who do social media:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/kingsdaughtermovie

Instagram: www.instagram.com/kingsdaughtermovie/

[Barbara]

Just a quick word that on Instagram and Facebook there are more ads for the film. I do not expect to see advertising for this on TV or for him to do a press tour, but who knows....

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movieweb.com/the-kings-daughter-review/

"I am an unabashed Pierce Brosnan fan. I did get a minor kick out of seeing him in ridiculously extravagant costumes, eighties hair band wig, and a haughty demeanor. He gives King Louis a personality that’s disdainful and somewhat likable at the same time. It’s a good performance from a veteran actor, but not nearly enough to prop up the film. The King’s Daughter needs a truckload of more pixie dust to achieve that goal. The King’s Daughter is a production of Bliss Media and Brookwell McNamara Entertainment. It will be released theatrically on January 21st from Gravitas Ventures."

Full review in the link above.

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[Barbara]

Just from the clips I have seen of this movie, including the one above, I figured The King's Daughter was going to fall out the way the reviewer has said above. A couple of performances here and there might be good (Pierce's is, the music behind him is not) but all and all....read the book.

-- Barbara

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The reviews I have seen basically put it on this side of awful, and lament the potential the film had and was wasted. I think everyone is just glad Kaya Scodelario met her life partner and has found her own happily ever after.


Pierce at least, is not getting bad reviews; but he is not getting many reviews at all.

I have a sneaking feeling just because there is so little out there right now this might become a thing for the tweens and become a hit in a couple of weeks as the mermaid crazy crowd find it.

-- B

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preview.houstonchronicle.com/movies-tv/pierce-brosnan-william-hurt-save-otherwise-dumb-16790975

Pierce Brosnan, William Hurt save otherwise dumb ‘King’s Daughter’

The romantic fantasy only comes alive when they are on the screen.
Mick LaSalle January 21, 2022Updated: January 21, 2022, 4:48 pm

“The King’s Daughter” has a script that reads like it was written in crayon, by someone using only their thumbs, but two good performances make it watchable: Pierce Brosnan as King Louis XIV and William Hurt as his advisor and confessor, Pere Francois de La Chaise.

To be clear, these aren’t performances that belong on any awards shortlist. Rather they’re examples of the strong work that capable actors do, almost as a matter of course. They suggest life histories that otherwise aren’t there and provide meaning where it’s absent. They make up the difference between an audience’s caring or not caring, between scenes that are alive or dead.

Here’s one example. There’s a scene in which the King must tell a young woman that he is, in fact, her father - and then tell her that she has to marry some repellent young rich guy. So Brosnan, as he goes into the scene, knows that this is not going to be some uncomplicated father-daughter reunion. He knows he has to deliver good news followed by horrible news. So how does he do it?

The easy thing would be to harden himself and play the objective, “I need to force my daughter to marry the rich guy.” But he doesn’t do that. He’s king. He is sure that he is going to get his way. Instead, he plays a combination of dread at her disappointment and curiosity about her character. And he inflects all of this through an entire lifetime of selfishness, of never having to care about anybody else.

As for Hurt, he establishes as a throughline his concern for the king’s soul, which doesn’t translate into abstract spiritualism, but as one man’s specific concern about another. Pere La Chaise - the famous Paris cemetery is named in his honor - likes and respects the king, knows his strengths and weaknesses, and fears that Louis has the capacity to go wrong in a big way.

Alas, Brosnan and Hurt are not the stars of “The King’s Daughter.” The star is Kaya Scodelario, who plays the title character, Marie-Josephe, a talented musician who is brought to serve in the king’s court, little suspecting that dad is sitting on the throne. Scodelario isn’t bad, either, but the story elements connected with her character are like a bad romance novel combined with fantasy.

It just so happens that when Marie-Josephe arrives at court, something big is going on. The king’s sailor’s have captured a mermaid (a computer-graphic Bingbing Fan), and their big plan is to kill the mermaid in the expectation that the mermaid’s immortality will transfer to Louis XIV. You know how it is. Once a king gets too old to play James Bond, courtiers start worrying about their job security.

Meanwhile, Marie-Josephe strikes up an interspecies friendship with the mermaid. In fact, Marie-Josephe goes for swims with the mermaid, while never needing to come up for air, rather like Kevin Costner in “Waterworld.” The mermaid also heals Marie-Josephe’s broken arm overnight, using a healing life ray. Still, it never occurs to anybody at court that it would be a smart idea to keep this mermaid alive.

As dumb as “The King’s Daughter” is - and “dumb” is the accepted critical term for a movie like this - you will still end up caring about the mermaid, about Marie-Josephe’s marital happiness, about her and her father’s relationship, and about the fate of Pere La Chaise.

But then, that’s what movies - not great or good movies, but OK movies - get us to do. They make us genuinely care about dumb things.

[Barbara]

So basically if anyone is watching this, they are going to be reminded of what Pierce can do with a mediocre script and what he can do when someone writes well for him. Maybe 2022 will bring him some better work.

And some very hard questions for Pervis and Wade about why they did Craig what they would not do for Brosnan.

-- B

[Barbara]

According to the Facebook page, February 11th, THE KING'S DAUGHTER goes up on demand! Who's in for a watch party?

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geekvibesnation.com/universal-to-release-the-pierce-brosnan-fantasy-adventure-the-kings-daughter-on-blu-ray-this-april/

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that they will be releasing the fantasy adventure film The King’s Daughter on Digital on April 4, and on Blu-Ray and DVD April 19, 2022. The film is directed by Sean McNamara and stars Pierce Brosnan, Kaya Scodelario, Benjamin Walker, Pablo Schreiber, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Fan Bingbing, William Hurt and Julie Andrews as the Narrator.