Cast - Cate Blanchett (as Queen Elizabeth), Clive Owen (as Sir Walter Raleigh), Samantha Morton (as Mary,Queen of Scot), Geoffrey Rush (as Sir Francis Walsingham)
Director - Shekhar Kapur
Producers - Working Title (now owned by Universal Pictures)
Distribution - Universal Pictures
Writer - Michael Hirst, William Nicholson
Cinematography - Remi Adefarasin Casting - Fiona Weir Production Design - Guy Dyas Art Direction - David Allday, Jason Knox-Johnston, Phil Simms, Andy Thomson, Frank Walsh Set Decoration - Richard Roberts Makeup - Loulia Sheppard Production Management - Tania Windsor Blunden
- A.R.Rahman is co-composing with Craig Armstrong ['Moulin Rouge!']
- The movie is a sequel to Elizabeth and will follow the story of Queen Elizabeth and her relationship with Sir Walter Raleigh
- “A.R.Rahman will compose the music for The Golden Age. I opted for him as he has the required range and dimension for an international challenge.” - Shekhar Kapur
- "A R Rahman had written the most beautiful piece for Divinity. I had asked him to do me a piece that felt like yearning for Absoluteness, both sad and full of hope and divinity at the same time. He sent a piece that had everyone in tears as they listened to it for the first time. In my interpretation, or rather in Samantha Morton's interpretation of Mary of Scotts, she finally found peace and Divinity in Death. Something that Elizabeth was aspiring to, Mary found in Martyrdom. So instead of filming the execution of Mary as something horrific as described in the history books, we saw it as her going to the final alter. Her final marriage. and we shot it to Rahman's music. But of course in the film, Elizabeth has to find Divinity not in death, but in life. That was her great achievement." - Shekhar Kapur in his blog [LINK]
- Golden Age will unfold, like its predecessor, against the increasing and bloody schism between Protestants and Catholics in England. Tim Bevan who, along with partner Eric Fellner, signed Kapur to direct Elizabeth after seeing his impressive Bandit Queen, describes the new film as a drama about religious tolerance.
- Shekhar Kapur's blog on the film - Golden Age Diary
CURRENT STATUS - Movie was premiered at the Toronto Internal Film Festival on Sep 10th. Worldwide release on 2nd Nov 2007, on Universal Pictures banner. Soundtrack release on Oct 9th on UNIVERSAL MUSIC label.
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