Colin Firth has always been a good actor — even in bad films, like Michael Winterbottom’s still-unreleased-stateside “Summer in Genoa”—but thanks to a major role in the blockbuster screen adaptation of “Mamma Mia!” and his Best Actor nomination for Tom Ford’s “A Single Man” last year, he’s inching ever closer to becoming a household name. This means that everyone’s interested in what he does next, especially since he’s been tipped as an Oscar nominee again for his role in upcoming Weinstein Co. contender “The King’s Speech.”
People even care when said new Firth project is a short directed by actor Rupert Friend (“The Young Victoria”). And maybe they should care: the simply titled “Steve,” which will debut at this year’s London Film Festival, now has a pretty enticing teaser and a couple of odd-looking promotional pictures to go with it. We wish we could tell you more about this thing, but aside from the fact that it also stars Keira Knightley (seen in one of the photos above) and Tom Mison, all we know is the synopsis Beat Pictures has provided, which goes a little something like this: “Steve is a story about a man who came to tea.”
Helpful. Of course, we can speculate from the teaser’s fluctuating mood of chipper to downright sinister (reflected in a shift of music, and in the tortured expression on Firth’s face), that “Steve” may be a kind of schizophrenic character study, but we’ve nothing to really back that up. We’ll just have to wait and see what reports from the LFF have to say about this oddity. (Via Hey U Guys)