Memoirs of Hadrian: The Movie

[texascavtrooper]

D B,
Did you look at the new pictures of Babylon?
Bryan

[D B Campbell]

D B, Did you look at the new pictures of Babylon?

Yup -- Thanks!

[Quintus Sertorius]

I am sure you are all correct. Hollywood is Hollywood! No one decries the bending of fact (which is often a damn good story in itself) than me, just to introduce a more convinient or tittilating script. However, think on this...

Many people I know who are interested in history got where they got because sometime in their life a film kicked their interest into gear. With me it was Ivanhoe way back, with my daughter it has been the recent run of Queen Elizabeth I TV programmes and films. With my friends.....

Given the appalling history syllabus in the UK National Curriculum for schools, these films are probably one of the few ways to get history in front of many people.

After 32 years of re-enacting/interpretation, I know we can always do better and we do, but so does Hollywood. Give'em time, but at least they are making films about Hadrian rather than more crime thrillers and shoot'em ups.

That's it - rant over!

Quintus
AKA Guido Aston

[Marcus F.]

Hm, but Manfredi isn't listed at all in this very recently updated imdb-site about "Memoirs of Hadrian".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467470/
(the bad thing is that this Rospo Pallenberg also wrote the screeplay for "Vercingetorix" :oops:

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Daniel Craig is an excellent actor, and I think would make a great Hadrian. If you.........

Here's what I think: If the film goes ahead, and Craig plays Hadrian, I predict he'll be up for an Oscar. That's how good I think Craig is with the right material.

Hmmmmm, but can he grow a curly beard? :?

[Wander]

If he can't, the makeup guys can grow a curly beard for him. Shouldn't be too hard.

[Marcus F.]

Visconti could have done it; perhaps Scorsese; but not Boorman/Manfredi. Given Boorman's singularly bad taste for music (Carmina Burana in Excalibur), I expect we will see Antinous drowning and will hear the Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth. Music for the masses.

I admit that I enjoy the music of "Carmina Burana", also as it was used in this film. Maybe, I'm a bit biased as most of my ancestors come from the little town, where Carl Orff used to live.

Does anyone here have suggestions for the rest of the casting, like Vibia Sabina, Antinous or others, who could appear in this movie? (maybe I should finally read the book of Marguerite Yourcenar)

[Jona Lendering]

(maybe I should finally read the book of Marguerite Yourcenar)

Yes, yes, yes. She's one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century - someone of the stature of Thomas Mann, Pirandello, T.S. Eliot, Marquez, and Naipaul. Although her interpretation of Hadrian is outdated (according to Birley), it is really a convincing portrait of - well, of a human being, with its good and bad aspects.

[Pearson]

Any recent news about this movie?

[Marcus F.]

here's some info from a guy, who was formerly hired to write the script:

Toward the end of the summer the producer with the Via Veneto apartment attended the Venice Film Festival and met George Clooney. He immediately decided that Clooney would be perfect to play Hadrian. Never mind that Hadrian was gay and obsessed with the beautiful, underage Antinous, a love affair that practically destroyed him after the boy drowned. Boorman reacted with head-shaking disbelief when he heard the Clooney idea. So did I.

But who was listening to the director, let alone the lowly screenwriter? Producers, distributors, and financiers all hopped on a plane and flew to Lake Como where Clooney had a villa. The one person they did not take, curiously enough, the guy who might actually have been able to persuade the actor, was John Boorman.

Nonetheless, the Get George Gang returned convinced Clooney would do it. Boorman just shook his head some more.

Eventually, the word came back: George Clooney would not be wearing a toga. No surprise there.

https://ronbase.wordpress.com/2013/08/22...t-in-rome/