FROST/NIXON to Open Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival
June 26th, 2008 by Andre Soares
Ron Howard’s drama Frost/Nixon will open the Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival on October 15.
Adapted for the screen from his own stage play by Peter Morgan, who was nominated for a BAFTA and an Oscar for The Queen, Frost/Nixon has Michael Sheen (who played a cleaner version of slimy Tony Blair in The Queen) and Frank Langella reprising their West End and Broadway roles as British journalist David Frost and US president Richard Nixon. The film covers the behind-the-scenes maneuvering up to the summer 1977 Frost/Nixon interviews, which attracted the largest audience for a news program in the history of American television.
Also in the cast: Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell, Matthew Macfadyen, Rebecca Hall, Oliver Platt, and veteran Patty McCormack (the cute little girl with blond pigtails — and vile murderous instincts — in The Bad Seed) as Pat Nixon.
The London Film Festival runs until October 30.
Frost/Nixon is scheduled to open in the US on Dec. 5.
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