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A couple exciting Hemingway film projects are on tap.
On the big screen, Anthony Hopkins is cast to star as Papa alongside Andy Garcia in the upcoming film Hemingway & Fuentes.
The film, which also stars Annette Bening, chronicles ‘Hemingway’s life in Cuba and his friendship with his fisherman Gregorio Fuentes, inspiration for the 1952 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Old Man and the Sea.
Garcia directs the film and co-wrote it with Hilary Hemingway. “It’s one of those stories that I feel compelled to tell,” says Garcia. “You can’t sit around hoping someone else will think of it and write it and call me to do it. Sometimes, when you have something to say, you just have to speak up for yourself.
On the small screen, but equally exciting, Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman have lined up to play Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn in the aptly named Hemingway & Gelhorn. Just as exciting as the stars is producer James Gandolfini, of The Sopranos, who reportedly spent six years trying to get HBO to greenlight the project as an original TV movie.
The website aceshowbiz.com reports that Philip Kaufman, director of the phenomenal film The Unbearable Lightness of Being, will direct the film, with writing credits going to Pollock‘s Barbara Turner and Jerry Stahl, of Bad Boys II.
That project is slated for 2012, and it apparently pulled the rug out from a similar film. Actress Gillian Anderson reportedly was slated to play Gellhorn in “the exact story” Kidman and Owen are on tap for.
“The sad news is I have to let go of Gellhorn as HBO is doing the exact story with Nicole and Clive Owen,” she told Britain’s Daily Express. “But these things happen and I was taking too long getting the script right and it’s my own damned fault.”
