Branagh Eyes Up Orson

Fresh from directing his latest big budget Shakespearean romp, Love's Labours Lost, Kenneth Branagh is rumoured to be considering the lead role in indie film Fade To Black, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Directed by Oliver Parker, who last worked with Branagh when he directed the 1995 version of Othello, the film focuses on a murder investigation by Orson Welles following a series of murders on his set at Rome's Cinecitta Studios after the Second World War.