Anthony Hopkins To Play Ernest Hemingway

As Seen on the Web - Thursday November 5, 2009

Hopkins in for Andy Garcia helmed biopic

Source: Empire

Anthony Hopkins has agreed to play Ernest Hemingway in Andy Garcia's biopic, Hemingway And Fuentes. The film is a drama about the two decades Hemingway spent in Cuba that ultimately led to the creation of his Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Old Man and the Sea, his final book published before he shot himself in the head with his own prized shotgun.

Garcia teamed up with Hemingway's granddaughter to pen the script, with the film focusing mainly on his close friendship with Gregorio Fuentes and their love for deep-sea fishing. It was Hemingway's other amorous affair with a beautiful Italian girl that inspired him to write the famous fishing tale.

At the moment Garcia is looking for funding, and in his search he discovered some sage advice from grand vizier, Francis Ford Coppola, who told him "the way you make a movie is, you begin." Garcia will play Fuentes and Annette Bening is also set to star as the Nobel Prize winning author's third wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway.

Garcia has been planning the pic since the Seventies when he came into contact with a group of local fisherman from Cuba who had been involved in some of Hemingway's giant Marlin fishing adventures during the 40's and 50's.

With these stars attached it seems almost impossible that Garcia will not be able to find funding. The film is aiming to start shooting after Hopkins has completed his role as Odin in the upcoming Thor.

Alain Nouvel

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