The Pope will be the subject of two upcoming films.
The Argentinian and German movies will cover different periods in Pope Francis I's life, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Writer and director Alejandro Agresti's film - tentatively called Historia de un Cura (History of a Priest) - will centre around the future pontiff's life as a young man in Argentina.
The Motorcycle Diaries star Rodrigo de la Serna is reported to be playing Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the man who would become Pope Benedict XVI's successor.
Meanwhile, German writer and producer Christian Peschken is working on a $34 million (£21 million) production under the working title Friend of the Poor.
Agresti is best known in English language cinema for the 2006 Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves-starring romantic drama The Lake House.
The Argentinian and German movies will cover different periods in Pope Francis I's life, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Writer and director Alejandro Agresti's film - tentatively called Historia de un Cura (History of a Priest) - will centre around the future pontiff's life as a young man in Argentina.
The Motorcycle Diaries star Rodrigo de la Serna is reported to be playing Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the man who would become Pope Benedict XVI's successor.
Meanwhile, German writer and producer Christian Peschken is working on a $34 million (£21 million) production under the working title Friend of the Poor.
Agresti is best known in English language cinema for the 2006 Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves-starring romantic drama The Lake House.
- 9/26/2013
- Digital Spy
Pope Francis I has transformed into a media darling since becoming pontiff earlier this year, gaining both praise and criticism for his outspokenness about a number of issues facing the Catholic Church. But now His Holiness is set to play an entirely different role: biopic subject.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that there are currently two films in production that center around the life of Pope Francis. One, out of the pope's native Argentina, will focus on his life as a young priest, when he was still known by his birth name, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The movie, written and directed by Alejandro Agresti ("The Lake House"), will be called "Historia de un cura" ("History of a Priest"), and star Rodrigo de la Serna ("The Motorcycle Diaries") as the young Bergoglio.
Meanwhile, in Germany, writer and producer Christian Peschken is working on a $34 million feature about Pope Francis called "Friend of the Poor.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that there are currently two films in production that center around the life of Pope Francis. One, out of the pope's native Argentina, will focus on his life as a young priest, when he was still known by his birth name, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The movie, written and directed by Alejandro Agresti ("The Lake House"), will be called "Historia de un cura" ("History of a Priest"), and star Rodrigo de la Serna ("The Motorcycle Diaries") as the young Bergoglio.
Meanwhile, in Germany, writer and producer Christian Peschken is working on a $34 million feature about Pope Francis called "Friend of the Poor.
- 9/26/2013
- by Katie Roberts
- Moviefone
Pope Movies (photo: Anthony Quinn in ‘The Shoes of the Fisherman’) [See previous post: "Pope Francis Movie in the Works?"] Now, do we need another Pope Movie? Well, actually there haven’t been that many. Most notable among the Pope Movies of decades past are Michael Anderson’s widely lambasted The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), with Anthony Quinn as what one pundit called "Zorba the Pope," and Nanni Moretti’s widely acclaimed comedy-drama We Have a Pope, with Michel Piccoli as a cardinal who reluctantly is elected chief of the Catholic Church. Here are a few more: Rex Harrison hammed it up as Pope Julius II to Charlton Heston’s equally risible Michelangelo in Carol Reed’s The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965); Liv Ullmann played the title role in Michael Anderson’s critically massacred Pope Joan (1972), about the alleged medieval female pope; and Finlay Currie reverentially incarnated the official first pope, St. Peter, in Mervyn LeRoy’s dreary (and...
- 4/29/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Pope Francis movie in the works? Friend of the Poor: The Pope Francis Story is the working title of a projected English-language biopic about the recently elected pope, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires. According to the National Catholic Register‘s Joseph Pronechen, German-born producer and Catholic convert Christian Peschken (listed on the IMDb as Chris Peschken) decided to make a movie about the first American pope (as in, from the Americas) after watching Pope Francis appear on the balcony at the Vatican on the day of his election. The National Catholic Register report states that an "European investment group has already approved a $25-million budget" for Friend of the Poor: The Pope Francis Story — which doesn’t even have a screenplay ready. Amg Films, a company that specializes in Catholic-themed movies, would handle sales. Peschken has invited Spanish filmmaker Antonio Cuadri, whose best known effort is probably the...
- 4/29/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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