Hopkins is Ernest about Playing ‘Hemingway’

Anthony Hopkins has been flirting with the idea of portraying Ernest Hemingway for some time now. He was originally attached to play him in Papa Hemingway which would look at his relationship with A.E. Hotchner, instead Hopkins looks set to play the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner during his friendship years with Gregorio Fuentes (who served as the protagonist model for the lead character in Hemingway’s famous The Old Man and the Sea).

From the AFM, Screen Daily reports that Andy Garcia will direct from a script he wrote with Hilary Hemingway a film titled Hemingway & Fuentes, an account of Hemingway’s years in Cuba with Garcia playing Fuentes and Annette Bening playing the role of Hemingway’s third wife Mary Welsh Hemingway. Production is set to start in summer 2010 – and though tensions between Cuba and the U.S. aren’t what they used to be, this should film somewhere identical to the island. Perhaps in the same location (Dominican Republic) where he directed The Lost City.