“Anthony Hopkins will play Ernest Hemingway in an indie titled Hemingway & Fuentes, to be produced and directed by Andy Garcia. . . .
“Garcia, who also co-wrote the script with Hemingway’s niece, author Hilary Hemingway, will costar in the film as well, playing the real life fishing-boat captain Gregorio Fuentes, who befriended Papa Hemingway in the last decade of the alpha-male writer’s life. Fuentes was said to be the model for one of Hemingway’s most enduring literary creations: the grizzled fisherman Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952.” (more @ Entertainment Weekly; via Books, Inq.)
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I think Hopkins would do a very fine job as Heminway! Only thing is that he looks much slighter in build. As far as I’ve seen in pics, Hemingway looks more burly. Check the boxing pic I posted on my blog – http://infloox.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/whod-win-in-a-fight-hemingway-or-eastman/ – looks like he didn’t shy away from a fight every now and then!