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.

Hemingway attempted suicide in the spring of 1961. He died at his home in Ketchum, Idaho in the summer 1961, the result of a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head.

“It is rare that we have such intimate, truthful knowledge about the life and, ultimately, demise of a true American icon,” Goldsmith-Vein said about the project.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Peter McHugh will co-produce the film.
The film does not have a set start date at this time.

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.

No doubt, these posters are not only meant to promote the movie, but be visible during the Democratic National Conventional that will take place in Denver on August 25th-28th.

“W” is scheduled to hit theaters on October 17th.

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.

However, this project had to be postponed since the screenplay was not yet ready, leading to the Lincoln project being brought forward in its place.

In an interview with the German weekly magazine Focus ahead of the world premiere of the new Indiana Jones film in Cannes, Spielberg also said production on Tintin would not be threatened by a possible actors’ strike.

“That doesn’t affect us as it is an animation film with motion capture technology,” he said.