The working poster from Ron Maxwell's official site

On this page, I will keep you up to date on developments with this upcoming movie by Ron Maxwell. Ron Maxwell, the director of such films as Gettysburg, Parent Trap II, and The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, has recently prepared a screenplay, to be made into a movie to compete with Luc Besson's The Messenger: The story of Joan of Arc. For some reason, it seems the production on this movie came to a stop, with rumors that the project was stopped for good. All websites had stopped carrying updates for this film. The official Ron Maxwell website has now updated their page, with the following info. I will continue to update this page with movie news, as it develops.

Studio: Turner Pictures(?) Pictix?
Production Company: Person-to-Person Films

Project Phase: Pre-production

Who's in it: Mira Sorvino (as Joan of Arc), Albert Finney(Robert de Beaudricourt?), Derek Jacobi(Bishop Pierre Cauchon?), Carey Elwes(Jean de Metz?), Kevin Conway(Jean Dunois?), Steven Lang(William Glasdale?) At this point, all actor/character associations except Joan of Arc herself I do not know at all. I'm speculating based on what I've seen of the actors and who I can imagine them as. Joan herself, however, is confirmed as being played by Mira Sorvino.

Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
Producers: Ron Maxwell, McKay Daines
Executive Producers: Robert Rehme & Pierre Spengler
Special Effects Producer: Tom Smith
Cinematography: Kees Von Oostrum
Production Design: Emile Ghigo
Costume Design: Yvonne Blake
Unit Production Mgr.: Jean-Yves Asselin
1st Assistant Director: Eric Bartonio
Historical Consultant: Philippe Contamine, Dept. of Medieval Studies, University of Paris

Release date: 2000 ?

Best information  so far:

February 1: The Ron Maxwell website has updated their Virgin Warrior page, and has put a few cast and crew names up, which means the project isn't dead as earlier suspected. New cast members  are Carey Elwes(Robin Hood: Men in Tights), Kevin Conway ("Buster Kilrain" from Gettysburg), Steven Lang ("George Pickett" from Gettysburg), Derek Jacobi ("Senator Gracchus" from Gladiator), and Albert Finney(Tom Jones, Breakfast of Champions). Seems like Mr Maxwell is sticking with some of his Gettysburg cast. It wouldn't surprise me if I saw more.

February 11: Copies of the screenplay are available at the official page for the movie, for a limited time.

February 24: No further developments as of yet, but remember that this is a work in progress(actually, in pre-production), so we won't be waiting forever for this movie. We should start receiving better casting info and other developments once shooting is underway.

April 20: A "scooper" (and a Joan enthusiast like myself) sent me this info regarding The Virgin Warrior: "Just went to the website - looks like there is a website of the company that will be producing the show - called pictix.... you can go onto it through Ron Maxwell's site or through pictix.com - their site is under construction right now, but it works like this: the public puts in ideas on what kinds of movies they want to see and therefore they have direct impact on what kinds of movies are made there. The Joan of Arc movie is supposed to be made through their company. Also, they are offering a deal where anyone can pay for tickets in advance - and if a movie isn't made they would refund the money... I wonder if this was made specifically with the Joan of Arc project in mind? They will give anyone who pays a refund if needed.  And they also said that as they make a movie, they will have updates, costumes, cast, etc... basically anything a director would see making a movie - which means we basically would see it being made from the ground up... I think this sounds pretty good..." Thanks heidi, for the info! I know I'll be keeping track of that website myself. And I'll also put the link to that new site on this page also. It's good to know that we're finally hearing about details like production companies now. Shouldn't be too long before we hear and see a few juicy details about the production!

May 3, 2000: I checked out the Maxwell page and it looks like some of the results of the pre-production stage are showing up there. You can go there and see design sketches of city walls, and planned city skylines, plus, there are photos of planned shooting locations, among them Reims Cathedral, where the coronation scenes for "The Messenger" were also shot.  Lookin' awesome! I guess they will use CGI to create different views of the city in the film. Also, the leading actress has been officially confirmed by Maxwell's page: Mira Sorvino, of "At First Sight" and "Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion" fame, will be playing Joan.

If you have any information about this movie that is not shown here, please tell me! But I must be able to verify it before I will put it up here.

Relevant links:

Ron Maxwell's Official Site

Pictix Production Company