themakeupgallery wants list
If you can provide any information or images regarding the following movies and TV shows please email themakeupgallery.
The latest additions
Cloud Atlas: Any information on the characters or makeup for this forthcoming movie where apparently ‘Everyone in the cast is playing at least three parts … Everybody’s swapping race and gender’ (eg Halle Berry as a 1930s Jewish Woman, a 1970s journalist & an old tribal woman). (IMDb)
Forever Old: Any images of an aged Yvonne Catterfeld. (IMDb)
The Place Beyond the Pines: any information on Eva Mendes’ makeup. (IMDb)
Venuto al mondo: any information on Penélope Cruzs makeup. (IMDb)
White Heat: any information on the makeup for this forthcoming mini-series. (IMDb)
Barfee: any information on the old-age makeup. (IMDb)
Hit and Miss: Any images from this forthcoming mini-series where Chloë Sevigny plays ‘a pre-op male-to-female tranny assassin’.
Call Me Fitz: Any images of Dot Foxley (Amy Sloan) in a fat-suit when Dot’s plus-size past is revealed. (IMDb)
K-11: any images from this recently filmed– after a lifetime in development hell – production. (IMDb)
Five: Any images of Patricia Clarkson or Lyndsy Fonseca. (IMDb)
Guess The Star: any information on this forthcoming celebrity fakeover show presented by Christine Bleakley.
FDR: American Badass!: Any images of Lin Shaye as Eleanor Roosevelt – the mind boggles. (IMDb)
Fatten Her: Any information on this forthcoming movie in which Pinky (Francesca Prandi) needs to fatten up to fulfill her grandfather’s dream and marry in the family’s ‘plus-size’ wedding dress. (IMDb)
Isabelle: Any images of Tineke Caels (and the half-starved Halina Reijn). (IMDb)
W.E: Any images of Natalie Dormer as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the future Queen Mother) and Andrea Riseborough as Wallis Simpson. (IMDb)
Farewell, My Queen: Any images of Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinettte. (IMDb)
Agent Vinod: Kareena Kapoor as a spy who uses prosthetic makeup disguises in what sounds like a bollywood version of Mr and Mrs Smith. (IMDb)
Dredd: Any images of Lena Headey. (IMDb)
Movie 43: What is going on with Halle Berry in the ‘Truth or Dare’ segment? (IMDb)
Trap for Cinderella: any information on the burn makeup. (IMDb)
Other recent & forthcoming stuff
The Danish Girl: Nicole Kidman playing MTF transsexual Einar Mogens Wegener/Lili Elbe. Is this production finally deceased after a long and lingering death? (IMDb)
Martyrs: Any information on the planned American remake. Deceased? (IMDb)
Uglies: Any information. Deceased? (IMDb)
The Coconuts: A South African TV series where a white family is turned black, and their black maid is turned white – any images from the pilot episode where the white family (played by black actors) and the black maid (played by a white actress) are seen before and after their transformation. (IMDb)
Gambit: any information on the Michael Hoffman-directed remake. Let’s hope it’s better than The Last Station – still it’s got the Coen Brothers behind it. (IMDb)
Callas: Eva Green as Maria Callas. (IMDb)
Leonie: Any information on the old-age makeup for Emily Mortimer and Christina Hendricks. (IMDb)
Winnie: any information on Jennifer Hudson’s makeup for this movie. (IMDb)
T: Any information on this drama series in development for HBO (as of November 2009) that explores the gender transformation of a woman into a man. (IMDb)
Bride of Frankenstein: any info on this project – supposedly: ‘They're looking for a person with great power and sex appeal. Someone along the lines of Scarlett Johansson or Anne Hathaway.’ Deceased? (IMDb)
10a/10b: any information on this rumoured remake of the brilliant 301/302 featuring Marisa Tomei and Liv Tyler – dead?. (IMDb)
Greek Fire: any information on this project with Eva Mendes as Maria Callas. Development hell? Lost out to Callas (see above) or the same movie with resurrected? (IMDb)
Beautiful Girl: any information on this production which features a ‘shy but brainy high school girl who returns for senior year after having slimmed down six dress sizes’. (IMDb)
The Big Experiment: any images from this New Zealand in-your-shoes-type show or from its Danish version (Med andre øjne). Also any information on any versions of the franchise – Distraction, who distribute it, claim to have sold it to Nordisk for other Scandinavian versions following the success of the Danish version, and have claimed sales for an Italian version and to TF1 for a French version (La Grande Expérience?). (Distraction website)
Chasing Happiness: any images of Kashmira Shah in disguise. (IMDb)
One of the Boys: Whatever happened to this this gender-swap format giving ‘women a once-in-a-lifetime chance to become a man’ – in particular the UK show with makeup by Neill Gorton – distributed world-wide by Zeal Entertainment. (Zeal)
Flying Into Love: Romola Garai as Jackie Kennedy? Whatever happened to this – dead? (IMDb)
Tatawo / Tattoo Bar: any images of, or information on, Mercedes Ortega’s extensive fake tattoos. (IMDb)
Ugly Me: any information on this proposed Mark Johnson remake of Pretendiendo. (IMDb)
Mrs In-Betweeny: any information on the credits for Amelia Bullmore’s prosthetic appendage. (IMDb)
Who Is Doris Payne?: any information on this Halle Berry movie – dead? (IMDb)
Nailed: a nail in the head must lead to an interesting makeup – but did it ever get finished? (IMDb)
Invisible Monsters: any news of this project. (IMDb)
Heaven and Earth aka James Miranda Barry: any information on the status of this much-delayed movie about Dr James Barry; at one time Rachel Weisz was attached.
The Witches: any information on this remake of the Roald Dahl story supposedly being developed by Guillermo del Toro – but he has so many movies ‘in development’.
Old stuff & really old stuff
The Hatchet Man: Loretta Young in yellowface from long time ago. (IMDb)
Dragonfly: any images of a bald Alison Lohman from her deleted scenes.
Man to Man: any images of Tilda Swinton as Ella and Max. (IMDb).
Cambio de sexo: any images of a young Victoria April as José María and María José in this movie from 1977 by Vicente Aranda. (IMDb)
Scarab: any images of Pilar Alcón as the witch who transforms into a sow thanks to a five-hour makeup application. (IMDb)
Return To Babylon: any images of Jennifer Tilly as Clara Bow and Laura Harring as Alla Nazimova. (IMDb)
Rapados: Macarena Gómez as a skinhead (IMDb).
Anyone for Denis? & Dunrulin: any images of Angela Thorne as Margaret Thatcher.
Esquire: Beverly D’Angelo photoshoot from the January 1988 edition featuring her made-up in likeness of Tammy Faye Baker and others.
Life: the Joan Collins photoshoot (October 1985 I believe) featuring Joan as Wallis Simpson and Elizabeth I amongst others.
Skin Deep: Anita Roddick fat makeup from this Discovery Channel documentary.
Lucy and Desi: Frances Fisher as Lucille Ball.
Lucy: Rachel York as Lucille Ball.
Circus Of The Stars: any of the female clowns.
Anna & The King: Jodie Foster in old-age makeup from the epilogue on the Special Edition DVD.
Alien Love Triangle: I’ve seen one still of a bald, green Heather Graham with pointy ears – does anyone have any news about what’s happened to this? – I’ve recently seen this given a September 2005 release date on some websites.
And lots lots more…
Information
If you have scanned or captured any of these images please let me have a copy – as large as possible. If you have any of the films on DVD are prepared to lend them to me I will take real good care to send it back to you undamaged.
Perhaps more importantly, if you have any suggestions for movies/TV shows/mini-series that I ought to be looking out please email me; especially with not English language movies I may not of heard of them.