The net is currently being graced with numerous images of William Hurt and Jessica Chastain filming scenes from "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby". Zimbio has quite a few of them and I will provide a link here to see selected ones with Mr. Hurt but there are more scattered in the Jessica Chastain section as well. Also Getty has some.

BTW, my mother is going to love the title of this film. Her name is Eleanor and she was teased endlessly about keeping her face in a jar. I picture any day now her telling my sister and I, "Do you know that they are making a movie with the title from that terrible song?" I'll know, of course, but I will nod understandingly even though I'm excited to see it.

Mr. Hurt looks as if he has lost a little weight. Frankly, I'm ambivalent about that. I think the man would look good if he weighed 500 pounds so it's not really something that matters to me. I wouldn't want him to lose too much weight, to be honest. That old adage that you could never be too rich or too thin is a bunch of flower fertilizer, to put it nicely. It never looks healthy to me. I'd rather have someone look healthy and not like they will be blown away the next time someone sneezes. William Hurt would wear any weight, healthy weight that is, well.


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I just read yesterday that William Hurt will be in "Winter's Tale", based on the book by Mark Helprin. It will be the directorial film debut of Akiva Goldsman. Akiva and Hurt also collaborated on "Lost in Space" which Goldsman wrote and produced and in which Mr. William Hurt played Prof. John Robinson.

Now I actually like "Lost in Space". I'm a lot more forgiving of it than some fans and even Mr. Hurt himself. I know what the film was trying to say. I think that it has its heart in the right place, wasn't content with being simple, and I do find it entertaining. I also became interested in it around the time my grandfather was dying/died of cancer and it helped me through the pain of his death. Because of that I could never look at it badly or feel anything else but fondness for it despite what anyone else says.

Production is to begin in October, making this the fourth film that Mr. Hurt will have made this year. Well fifth if you count both the His and Hers versions of "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby". The year started with "The Host", followed with the modern version of Chekhov's "The Seagull", both sexed variations of "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" were fast on its heels and this will eventually  progress to "Winter's Tale". 

Mr. Hurt is a busy, busy, busy man! I hope that he remembers to take good care of himself! Even God rested after the seventh day, afterall. Of course, this was probably not so coincidentally after He created the wonderful and troublesome creature known as man, for which He would need a long rest, and who knows how long a day really is to God. But the point is the same: He still rested and you should too Mr. Hurt!