By The breakout male star of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” Tom Blyth, has set his next project with a new film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s famed 1929 novel “A Farewell to Arms”.
Filmmaker Michael Winterbottom (“Welcome to Sarajevo”) will pen and direct the movie in which Blyth will play Frederic Henry, a young volunteer ambulance driver in the Italian Army during World War I who gets wounded and falls in love with his nurse.
Considered one of the greatest war novels ever made, the story is based on Hemingway’s own experience in WWI and blends both a love story and a look at the human cost of war.
The property has already been adapted several times including the 1932 and 1957 films, the 1966 mini-series and into a stage play. The new version is reportedly being made with the full support of Hemingway’s estate. Melissa Parmenter will produce.
Of his approach to the material, Winterbottom says in a statement:
“Hemingway believed in paring a story down to the bare bones. He argued that a novel could be like an iceberg: the reader only sees the tip above the water but feels the bulk and weight of what lies below the surface. I want our film to be true to Hemingway’s approach – immediate, raw and natural – and I think in Tom Blyth we have found the perfect person to be Frederic Henry.”
Fremantle, Revolution Films and Passenger are backing the project which will start shooting in Italy later next year.
Source: Variety
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