Sullivan Update!
There has been a lot going on here at Sullivan Entertainment!
We are currently shooting Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, a three-hour made-for-television movie set to premiere on CTV in 2008. The film follows Anne’s life before arriving in Green Gables. Acting legend and Academy Award-Winner Shirley MacLaine plays matriarch Amelia Thomas, Rachel Blanchard plays Louisa Thomas, Barbara Hershey plays a 50-year-old Anne, and Hannah Endicott-Douglas plays the younger Anne Shirley.
Amelia Thomas (MacLaine) is a character mentioned in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s first novel, which has been shaped into a principal character in Kevin Sullivan’s original screenplay. She is a wealthy, powerful and unlikable widow who runs Marysville, New Brunswick, a prosperous lumber town with saw, cotton, and cider mills belonging to the Thomas family. Her temperament, however, is quickly transformed for the better by the imaginative and playful Anne Shirley (Endicott-Douglas).
Hannah Endicott-Douglas was personally selected to play Anne by Kevin from over 1000 hopefuls. That search included an open casting call on YouTube and a cross-Canada audition tour that lasted for three months. Hannah has also appeared in “The Good Witch” and “Samantha: An American Girl.”
The Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning website will be up soon, so stay tuned for more updates!
