Hugh Hudson to adapt George Orwell's Homage To Catalonia
Director Hugh Hudson (Chariots Of Fire) is to direct Catalonia, an adaptation of George Orwell’s book Homage To Catalonia by Australian screenwriter Bob Ellis.
Al Clark, co-producer of the last film adaptation of an Orwell book, Nineteen Eighty-Four starring John Hurt and Richard Burton is Hudson’s producing partner.
Catalonia is a true story about Orwell and his wife Eileen, and about the effect their encounter with Georges Kopp - the charismatic commander of the Anarchist brigade that Orwell joins during the Spanish Civil War - has on both of them.
Colin Firth and Kevin Spacey are attached to play Orwell and Kopp. Shooting is planned to begin during the first half of 2010 in England, Spain, and the cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
Al Clark, Alain Sarde and Hank Levine are producing. Fernando Meirelles is executive producer and his Brazilian company 02 will be a production partner on the film. The score will be composed by Mark Knopfler.
International sales are being handled by California based Arclight. Their slate includes Anders Anderson’s Stolen Lives starring Josh Lucas, Jon Hamm and Rhona Mitra which is about a detective who deals with the loss of his own son while uncovering the identity of a boy whose mummified remains are found.
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Anne-Marie Kopp | 30-Aug-2009 12:26 pm
I am Geoges Kopp's daughter and very happy to heard that a script has be done from Orwell's book:" Homage to Catalonia". I hope that the film will follow closely the text of Orwell and will not be inspired by all the errors and untruths one can find on the Net.These errors led me to write, for the moment, my father's life. My wish would be to be able to communicate with Hugh Hudson.
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Michael Hendry | 24-Nov-2009 10:18 am
Mr Hudson is elusive, and I would be fascinated to know how much he has drawn on the death of his uncle (John Donaldson-Hudson) from TB in 1949. George Orwell died of the same disease in 1950.
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