According to reports, former X-Files star Gillian Anderson has joined the cast of Working Title’s sequel to the 2003 British spy spoof Johnny English. Anderson will play MI7 agent Pamela Head in the new film, which is set to start filming soon.

Rowan Atkinson will play the lead as English. The original movie also featured the acting talents of Natalie Imbruglia and Ben Miller.

Oliver Parker directs from a script by Hamish McColl.

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WEEKS after we reported that Gillian Anderson and Nicole Kidman were to play war correspondent Martha Gellhorn in rival movies, the X Files actress reveals she is abandoning her project.

Gillian, 41, had been planning a film about Gellhorn, third wife of Ernest Hemingway, for two years but has met obstacles when attempting to get it off the ground.

Nicole is on board for rival movie Hemingway & Gellhorn, with British actor Clive Owen as the writer and adventurer. Gillian has pulled her project – and says it is her own fault for procrastinating.

She says: “The sad news is I have to let go of Gellhorn as HBO is doing the exact story with Nicole and Clive Owen.

“But these things happen and I was taking too long getting the script right and it’s my own damned fault.”

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Nicole Kidman and Gillian Anderson are set to appear in rival films about war correspondent and novelist Martha Gellhorn.

Oscar-winner Nicole has just been signed up along with Clive Owen to star in Hemingway And Gellhorn about one of American literature’s most famous couples, Deadline Hollywood reveals.

X Files star Gillian’s company bought the rights to Caroline Moorehead’s biography Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life in 2008 and hired Sharman Macdonald to write a feature adaptation for Gillian to star in as Gellhorn.

James Gandolfini is producing Hemingway And Gellhorn, which he has been working on for six years now and was originally attached to star in himself.

Philip Kaufman will direct from a script by Barbara Turner and Jerry Stahl and filming is due to start in Northern California next year.

Ernest Hemingway was already a literary legend when he met Gellhorn, a novelist and one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century, in a local bar in Key West in 1936.

Their tumultuous romance and subsequent five-year marriage took them to the Spanish Civil War, and Gellhorn’s competitive nature inspired Hemingway to pen one of his most famous novels, For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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