Anthony Hopkins will star as Ernest Hemingway in "Papa," to be directed by Roger Donaldson.

Donaldson said the film will be based on Hemingway's encounter with Denne Bart Petitclerc, America's youngest war correspondent in the Korean War, who was inspired by how Hemingway reported on the Spanish Civil War.

"Hemingway invited him to Havana for some weekends and the movie is really about what happens when he goes there," Donaldson told the Dominion Post newspaper in Tuesday's editions. "It's a thriller, it's a love story, it's Hemingway as he falls apart and is suicidal. This guy was a witness to it all." "It's a pretty ambitious movie for what it is ... Hemingway is a great writer and a great character. If anybody can play Hemingway, Tony Hopkins can," Donaldson said.

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Posted by Lawren at October 5, 2005 08:08 AM | Trackbacks (0)

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Hopkins is a great actor but I can't see him as the big, strappin' (and damned handsome) Hemingway.

Says: Nanc' at October 5, 2005 08:16 AM

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Great idea for a movie but horrible casting. Awful. Agree w/Nanc', Can not see hopkins as Hemingway at all. Urgh, first the Keira something something as Elizabeth Bennet and now this.

Says: azita at October 5, 2005 06:59 PM

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