Tag: biopic
Biography Of Ernest Hemingway To Be Turned Into A Movie
A.E. Hotchner‘s best-selling biography “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir” from 1966 has been secured for a movie adaptation by The Gotham Group and producer Kevin Fortuna.
The book focuses on last fourteen years of Ernest Hemingway‘s life.
“King of the Hill” is Aaron Edward Hotchner’s memoir about growing up in St. Louis during the Great Depression. It was made into a movie in 1993 by Steven Soderbergh who directed and wrote the screenplay.
Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” was published in 1952. It earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. The next year he was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature. Hemingway was seriously injured on a safari and he was unable to travel to Stockholm to accept his Nobel Prize.
New Oliver Stone’s “W.” Posters
FilmSchoolRejects found some new teaser posters for Oliver Stone‘s George Bush biopic “W” apparently set up outside of a construction site in downtown Denver, CO. They feature two shots of the President sitting at his desk. The tagline states: “A Life Misunderestimated,” which should give you an idea of where exactly this film is going.
Steven Spielberg’s long-awaited Abraham Lincoln project after Tintin
Steven Spielberg‘s long-gestating project about US president Abraham Lincoln will be the director’s next project after the first live-action Tintin film which goes into production this September.Spielberg says he will begin shooting of the Lincoln biopic at the beginning of 2009 “so that it can also open in the same year as Lincoln’s 200th anniversary which comes round then.”
Originally, Spielberg had been planning Chicago Seven as his next project about the famous 1960s trial of the protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago.
