Andy Garcias Hemingway Film Moves Forward with Hopkins
and Bening in Lead Roles

post from /Film on 05 November 2009 01:01:57 PM. © /Film

I don't think we ever reported on it at the time, but back in March Andy Garcia was talking up a film called Hemingway and Fuentes, about the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and his fishing partner and longtime friend Gregorio Fuentes. At the time, Anthony Hopkins was loosely attached to play Hemingway. That casting has now firmed up, and the film will move forward with Annette Bening also aboard as Mary Hemingway.Garcia wrote the script with Hemingway's granddaughter Hilary Hemingway, and he will direct the film in addition to co-starring as Fuentes. Variety reports that it's a project Garcia says he's been interested in for thirty years, since he first fished alongside men who knew the author. Landing Hopkins should be the key to get financing together. Garcia explained his long-standing interest in the story:I was specifically most interested in Hemingway?s connection to Cuba, where he spent the last 20 ...

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