major Marlowe films/movies...3 of them!
lyra
Marlowe news item...
(quote from)
Variety.com
C A N N E S N E W S
‘MARLOWE' INKS HELMER
By NICK VIVARELLI
and JOHN HOPEWELL
Helmer Roland Joffe is set to
shoot "Marlowe," a fictionalized
biopic of Christopher Marlowe,
the British dramatist believed
by some to have been Shakespeare's
ghostwriter.
Principal photography on the
€22.5 million ($26.5 million)
English-language period piece
is skedded to kick off Sept. 15 in
Belgrade, Serbia, then moving
to Rome, Venice and London.
It's one of several Marlowe
projects in the works, with Julien
Temple's "The Golden Man" and
John Maybury's "Marlowe."
Pic marks Joffe's return behind
the camera
following
costumer "Vatel,"
which
opened the
2000 Cannes
festival.
Italian producer
Massimo
Pacilio said
"Marlowe" is
an Italian-French co-prod between
his Movieweb film fund
and Backup Films, the Parisbased
film financing outfit headed
by David Atlan-Jackson. London-
based producer Jamie
Brown, who is collaborating with
Pacilio on other projects, is also
part of the production team.
Casting is still under way on
the pic, which supposes that Marlowe
did not die at age 28 but instead
vanished from London —
where he was thought to have
been stabbed to death in a bar
brawl — and fled to Italy.
There
he found intrigue, romance and
also started writing plays.
Veteran Italian production
designer Giantito Burchiellaro
("The Soul Keeper") will handle
the sets. Screenplay is by firsttime
scribe Francois Taborelli.
Joffe said, "Marlowe represents
everything about youth that
irritates adults. He is a symbol of
iconoclasm, and also a genius."
His previously announced
India-set project, the $40 million
epic "The Invaders," will
follow "Marlowe."
J O F F E
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http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=pacilio+marlowe&btnG=Search&meta=
lyra
and here's an Italian page,
translated by Google online...
(quote)
ROLAND JOFFÉ (Director)
I inquire the mystery of Marlowe
[ of Fabbri Navy ]
Debut to the Italy Club for the new house of Movieweb production, to
the presence of the producer Maximum Pacilio , the actor Giancarlo
Giannini and the director Roland Joffé, both engages to you in two of
the plans in course of the new company.
The director of The Mission and Vatel will sign in fact the direction
of Marlowe. The Great Hoax , a history of writing, mystery, drama and
love that wheel around the mythical figure of the English dramatist
from many thought the ghostwriter of Shakespeare and will have like
background the evocative set of Venice and the Tuscany.
Of Italian mother, much legacy therefore to our culture and our
landscapes, Joffé gladly answers to the questions of the Italian
journalists presents.
About that its film speaks truly?
E' in the first place the history of a surveying on the famous Marlowe
dramatist, on whose true identity we do not know still today very many.
One says that she was a spy of English, and that author of the works of
Shakespeare has been quite he it.
Therefore the film will speak about secrets, of menzogne and truth, of
mystery and how much little we know in truth of our life. But it will
be also a love history, since to reconstruct the history of Marlowe it
is Frances Cecil, its loving young person.
Content E' to turn in Italy? #
They are quite enthusiastic. Italy is a country that me is much
neighbor, my mother was in fact piemontese, of the Savoia, and has
passed to nearly all my infantile vacations on the Lago of Garda, in
the house of my grandmother.
However the resumptions will be carried out also to Belgrade and in
England. They are pleasing to the producer in order to have given the
opportunity to me to return in your country with a fascinating plan
therefore, and I hope also to improve my Italian a po' primitivo.
you write to the writing it prints the page
you see also
dossier
Cannes 2004
interviews
Pacilio Maximum
http://news.cinecitta.com/people/intervista.asp?id=5014&idd=1
(this page is in Italian)
(I really like the oddness of the translation,
it gave me a few laughs
on a dull day!)
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lyra
has its own
English version...
(quote)
ROLAND JOFFÉ (Director)
Investigating the mystery of Marlowe
[by Marina Fabbri]
The new production company Movieweb made its debut at the Club Italia
<http://news.cinecitta.com/dossier/articolo.asp?id=5010&idd=1>. The
launch was made in the presence of the producer Massimo Pacilio
<http://news.cinecitta.com/people/intervista.asp?id=5012&idd=1>, the
actor Giancarlo Giannini and the director Roland Joffé, both of whom
are working on two of the new companys projects.
The director of The Mission and Vatel will direct the film about
Marlowe. The Great Hoax is a story of mysterious writing, drama and
love all centred around the famous British literary figure who some
people believe was Shakespeares ghostwriter. It will be set in Venice
and Tuscany.
Joffé's mother was Italian and so he has close ties with our culture.
He was happy to answer questions put by the Italian journalists.
What is your film actually about?
First of all its the story of an investigation into the famous play
write Marlowe, whose real identity still remains much of a mystery to
this day. Some believe he was an English spy, and that he was the real
author behind Shakespeares works. The film will talk about secrets,
lies and truth, about mystery and how little we really know about our
lives. But it will also be a love story, reconstructing the love
between Marlowe and Frances Cecil, his young lover.
Are you happy to be filming in Italy?
Im really enthusiastic. Italy is a country I feel very close to, in
fact my mother was from Piedmont and I spent almost all my childhood
holidays on Lake Garda, in my grandmothers house. Then again some of
the film will also be shot in Belgrade and Britain.
Im grateful to the producer who has given me the chance to come back
to your country with such a fascinating project, and I hope Ill also be
able to improve my rather basic Italian.
email the newsroom <mailto:cineci...@cinecitta.it>
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http://news.cinecitta.com/people/intervista.asp?id=5014&idd=1
lyra
courtesy of Google - thanks -
(quote)
Giancarlo Giannini Will be Christopher Marlowe
Giancarlo Giannini protagonist of the ' Marlowe' di Roland Joffè. To
announce it he has been the same arrived Italian actor today on the
Croisette directly from the resumptions of "The Shadow dancer", in
which he interprets Farinelli Father.
Giannini has arrived on the exclusive terrace of the ' Italy Club ' -
where the new productions put in yard from the Movieweb society were
celebrated directed from Pacilio Maximum, present the same Roland
Joffè and the attrice Guaccero White woman - where it has attracted
the flash of the numerous present photographers.
"E' the story - Giannini has said - of a gloomy age and from the
uncertain historical borders dominated from the rivalry between two
titaniums of the stage as they were Shakespeare and Christopher
Marlowe.
Often it has been said quite that some capolavori of the dramatist of
Stratford were in truth to attribute themselves to Marlowe on whose
dramatic died nobody of the rest it has never made clarity.
E' po' an eternal history of Mozart and Salieri but the modern critic
has given back to my Marlowe all the legitimate largeness ".
(15-05-2004)
http://www.capital.it/trovacinema/detail_articolo.jsp?idContent=272049
lyra
¿Tiene algún proyecto de ficción entre manos?
Espero empezar a rodar en noviembre un thriller sobre Christopher
Marlowe, un escritor de la época de Shakespeare con una vida muy
agitada.
(Julian Temple)
http://fiberfib.com/fiber/2004/fiber_04_n.php?fiber=5&pag=26
lyra
(quote translation)
It has some fiction project in hand?
I hope to begin to roll in November
a thriller on Christopher Marlowe,
a writer of the time of Shakespeare
with a life very shaken.
lyra
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