Not content with The Mighty Celt coming out soon, A Cock and Bull Story coming out later in the year (based on the classic novel Tristam Shandy) and of course the BBC's prestige production of Dickens' Bleak House in the summertime, Gillian's signed out for another interesting project.
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND
Next month, Gillian will be in Uganda w**king on "The Last King of
Scotland" <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375703314/gaws-20>
starring Forest Whitaker and James McAvoy.
Based on Giles Foden's award-winning novel of the same name and adapted
by Peter Morgan ("The Deal") and Jeremy Brock ("Mrs. Brown"), the film
will be helmed by Oscar-winning documentary director Kevin Macdonald
("One Day in September," "Touching the Void")
In an incredible twist of fate, Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor
(James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly
entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest
Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of
crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his
personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first
flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's
savagery -- and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as
Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and get out of Uganda alive.
Gillian will play the role of Sarah Zach, an Israeli doctor with whom
Dr. Garrigan has a brief affair (she later turns out to be a spy).
You may read more about the movie at
http://press.foxsearchlight.com/press.php?UID=32 and there's a very
interesting interview with Giles Foden at
http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1298/f.../interview.html.