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Bulgakov's Satan Will Hit the Big Screen with 'The Master and the Margarita'
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It's been a number of years since Roman Polanski was going to bring Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and the Margarita to the big screen. (Although there was a miniseries a few years ago.) Now The Hollywood Reporter has posted that the novel is getting its next shot with producer Scott Steindorf and Stone Village Pictures -- the same company that is bringing us Gabriel Garcia Marquez's famous work -- Love in the Time of Cholera. Stone Village optioned the film in a low to mid six-figure against low-seven deal, and are on the search for someone to adapt the work from an uncensored manuscript.The story (with the 12% that was removed previously) has got all the bits for a good adaptation, and has been one I've been itching to read. Taking place in Moscow before the second World War, the novel focuses on the devil popping up on Earth as one Professor Woland and having his fun with the literary world in Moscow. His adventures and predictions land many in the insane asylum, which is where the devil is headed to see The Master, who wrote a book about Pontius Pilate, and "was driven mad by rejection." Meanwhile, his love, Margarita, longs to be reunited with him.
The Master and Margarita
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For obvious reasons, Russia doesn't tend to turn out vast amounts of great literature. For the past...ever,
they have really been too busy trying to eat and survive to really take time aside for culture and the arts. However,
when they do foray into the realm of literature, they tend to turn out pure gold (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and
Solzenitzen are great examples of what Russia can do when given the chance).
Possibly the most popular cult author in Russia is a man named Mikhail Bulgakov, who died some sixty five years ago. His work The Master and Margarita went unpublished for more than two decades after his death, and only after the Khrushchev era thaw did it find its way into the hands of the Russian people. The fantastically supernatural book tells the intricately interlaced tale of the Devil, an evangelist named Matthew attempting to uncover the truth of Christ's crucifixtion, and a desperate woman named Magarita who desired to be reunited with her insane asylum confined lover "the Master." His work strongly satarizes Soviet life, much in the style of a Russian Twain or Swift.
The much beloved novel is now in the hands of director and screenwriter Vladimir Bortko, who has adapted it
into a nearly 9 hour movie which will air (mini-series style) on the State television channel. You may insert your
"In Soviet Russia" jokes here, if you like. I, for one, am extremely excited about this project, and can only
wait and hope that it meets with strong success and somehow finds its subtitled way to the states.
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