{"id":333733,"date":"2017-07-03T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=333733"},"modified":"2017-07-03T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T16:32:00","slug":"andy-serkis-directorial-debut-breathe-to-open-61st-london-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=333733","title":{"rendered":"Andy Serkis&#8217; directorial debut Breathe to open 61st London film festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p>Breathe, the directorial debut of Andy Serkis, has been selected as the opening film of this year\u2019s BFI\u00a0London film festival.<\/p>\n<p>Starring\u00a0Andrew Garfield\u00a0and Claire Foy, Breathe is based on the true story of Robin Cavendish, who was diagnosed with polio while in Kenya and given months to live, only to survive and become an advocate for the rights of disabled people.<\/p>\n<p>Foy plays Diana, Cavendish\u2019s wife, who helped him come to terms with his illness, while Hugh Bonneville appears as scientist Teddy Hall, who aided Cavendish in developing a revolutionary wheelchair. Tom Hollander, Stephen Mangan and Diana Rigg also appear in the film.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-1 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-feature--item \">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__image-container u-responsive-ratio\">The London screening will be the film\u2019s European premiere. Serkis, who is\u00a0best known for his motion-capture work\u00a0as an actor on such films as the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Planet of the Apes prequels, is set to attend along with the film\u2019s stars.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The 61st BFI London film festival will take place from 4-15 October. Other films screening at the festival include a restored version of Shiraz, the 1928 silent film about a 17th-century princess who inspired the construction of the Taj Mahal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source Guardian UK<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breathe, the directorial debut of Andy Serkis, has been selected as the opening film of this year\u2019s BFI\u00a0London film festival. Starring\u00a0Andrew Garfield\u00a0and Claire Foy, Breathe is based on the true story of Robin Cavendish, who was diagnosed with polio while in Kenya and given months to live, only to survive and become an advocate for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":333734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2777,137],"tags":[8883,8884],"class_list":["post-333733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-showbiz","tag-andy-serkis","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}