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EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a fewer years since we heard astir writer-director Michael Winterbottom’s A Farewell to Arms adaptation, but it now has caller impetus pinch producer-financier Tribune Pictures and UK income patient Embankment Films, which is bringing it to nan Cannes market.
Fremantle is among nan original partners who are nary longer aboard nan film, which will spot Hunger Games and Billy The Kid prima Tom Blyth travel successful nan footsteps of Gary Cooper, Rock Hudson and George Hamilton successful nan lead role.
First published successful 1929, A Farewell to Arms is wide regarded arsenic 1 of nan defining warfare novels of nan twentieth century. Drawing connected Ernest Hemingway’s ain experiences arsenic a unpaid ambulance driver pinch nan Italian Army connected nan Isonzo Front during nan First World War, nan caller became an world sensation and cemented Hemingway’s position arsenic 1 of America’s astir influential literate voices.
The communicative follows Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver serving successful Italy who is wounded during nan warfare and falls successful emotion pinch nan British caregiver Catherine Barkley. The squad is aiming for a January 2027 start.
The movie will beryllium produced by Tribune Pictures’ Robert Maclean and Michael Paletta alongside Revolution Films’ Melissa Parmenter, pinch nan support of nan Hemingway Estate.
Robert Maclean and Tribune Pictures’ caller films see nan Hemingway adaptation Across nan River and into nan Trees, The Wizard of nan Kremlin (Olivier Assayas), Dead Man’s Wire (Gus van Sant), and In nan Hand of Dante (Julian Schnabel).
Welcome To Sarajevo and The Trip head Winterbottom, who won a Berlin Golden Bear for In This World, said today: “Hemingway believed successful paring a communicative down to nan bare bones. He based on that a caller could beryllium for illustration an iceberg: nan scholar only sees nan extremity supra nan h2o but feels nan bulk and weight of what lies beneath nan surface. I want our movie to beryllium existent to Hemingway’s attack — immediate, earthy and earthy — and I deliberation successful Tom Blyth we person recovered nan cleanable personification to beryllium Frederic Henry.”
Tom Blyth, for whom nan task has agelong been a passion, commented: “As a person of Hemingway and a large admirer of Michael Winterbottom’s filmmaking, it’s an honour to beryllium trusted pinch this adaptation. Michael has adapted nan book successful a measurement that wholly pays homage to Hemingway’s style, while lifting nan communicative from book to surface successful a caller and exhilarating way. With nan world erstwhile again facing conflicts not seen successful generations, this communicative couldn’t beryllium much pertinent and necessary. And yet astatine it’s heart, contempt its tragedy, it’s a communicative of dream and emotion surviving against each odds. I can’t hold to bring 1 of my favourite books and characters to life connected nan large screen”
