{"id":3463,"date":"2008-10-22T17:17:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T16:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2010-11-06T15:37:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T15:37:29","slug":"interview-toa-fraser-on-dean-spanley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/10\/22\/interview-toa-fraser-on-dean-spanley\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Toa Fraser on Dean Spanley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dean Spanley<\/a><\/strong> is a new film based on the novella<\/a> by Irish author Lord Dunsany<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Set in the Edwardian era<\/a> it is the story of a father (Peter O’Toole<\/a>) and son (Jeremy Northam<\/a>) who attend a lecture by a visiting Hindu Swami (Art Malik<\/a>).<\/p>\n

There they encounter Dean Spanley (Sam Neill<\/a>), with whom, after a series of chance encounters, Henslowe strikes up an unlikley friendship.<\/p>\n

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It screened at the London Film Festival<\/a> last Friday and I spoke to the director\u00a0Toa Fraser<\/a> <\/strong>earlier that afternoon.<\/p>\n

You can listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Toa_Fraser_on_Dean_Spanley.mp3]\n

You can also download\u00a0it as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dean Spanley <\/strong>is\u00a0out at UK cinemas on December 12th 2008<\/em><\/p>\n

>\u00a0Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a>
\n>\u00a0Dean Spanley<\/a> at the IMDb
\n> Toa Fraser<\/a> at the IMDb
\n> Rotten Tomatoes UK visit the set<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dean Spanley is a new film based on the novella by Irish author Lord Dunsany. Set in the Edwardian era it is the story of a father (Peter O’Toole) and son (Jeremy Northam) who attend a lecture by a visiting Hindu Swami (Art Malik). There they encounter Dean Spanley (Sam Neill), with whom, after a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,20,19,38],"tags":[590,138,2796,606],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}