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Is There an Icon Kirk Ellis Can't Handle?
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Everyone's got their niche -- that little slice of the pie that they command -- but it's not often that this niche traverses a wide range of historical icons from almost every part of life. In the beginning one would never have imagined that Kirk Ellis, the man who jumped onto the scene with 1988's Nightmare at Noon, would soon enter the world of biopics, or that he'd get handed the reigns of some doozies.After a run of easily forgotten fare, Ellis found his niche. He started with a television biopic on The Beach Boys, followed it up with The Three Stooges, Anne Frank, and Judy Garland (the last as producer). There was a bit of a lull after that (besides Into the West), but in 2008, the guy got his big-deal mojo -- that miniseries we all loved called John Adams. Now, it looks like the world is his oyster. He's writing the upcoming Jackie Robinson film, and as IMDb shares, he's also involved with 1776 (Nathan Hale and the Revolutionary War), Escape (Carolyn Jessop and her escape from FLDS), and The Worst Hard Time (people in the Dust Bowl).
What else could they possibly pile on? How about our short-sentenced wonder Ernest Hemingway? Remember that A.E. Hotchner adaptation in the works? Variety reports that Ellis is going to adapt it. It's a good call, but that's not all -- the piece also says Ellis is adapting American Tabloid, a cross between fiction and reality, and Blood and Thunder -- a drama about Kit Carson and the Navajo Wars.
Is there anyone this man couldn't or wouldn't handle? He's pretty much running the gamut, the Superman of historical screenwriting. So, I ask you: Any icons you'd like to see him take on?
Papa Gets a Biopic, But Where's 'The Garden of Eden'?
I love my Papa. (Well, I love my Papa too, but in reference to this post, I'm talking about everyone's Papa -- Ernest Hemingway.) And now he's getting his very own biopic! Huzzah! The Hollywood Reporter posts that A.E. Hotchner's biography Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir has been optioned by The Gotham Group and producer Kevin Fortuna.This won't follow his war years, his newspaper days in Toronto, or his wives -- instead, it focuses on Hemingway's final 14 years, as told to and experienced by a friend. (Hotchner and Hemingway were close -- partaking in everything from childhood reminiscing to running with the bulls in Pamplona.) It'll also be something like a sequel, in that Hotchner also wrote the 1962 film Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. Unrelated, but still steps in one literary life -- and how great is it to get a story of a writer that's not all about romance and sexual dysfunction? I was beginning to think Hollywood didn't have it in 'er.
But where's The Garden of Eden? Remember that one? The excellent posthumous Hemingway novel turned into a film starring Mena Suvari as the gender-bending Catherine Bourne? It screened in Italy for the RomaCinemaFest, and according to IMDb rumors, Sam Goldwyn viewed it, requested changes, and is pondering distribution through Miramax. But still, nothing. Hopefully this project will have an easier time making it to the screen.
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