Yet another Film about Orson Welles in the Works?

[Glenn Anders]

Reuters is carrying a report that British "mocumentary" and music video director Julien Temple plans to make a "behind the scenes" film based on Clifford Irving's biography of Elmyr de Hory entitled Fake:

http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews ... GQ20091105

The article says that Temple hopes to shoot the film next Spring in Spain, France, and Croatia.

According to Correspondent Stuart Kemp, "'Fake!' details the complex emotional triangle among de Hory, Irving and Welles."

Director Temple has made other films such as PANDAEMONIUM (about Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth), and others concerning pop culture figures such as The Sex Pistols

We seem to be gearing up for another "Year of Welles" in 2009-2010.

Glenn

[Alan Brody]

Sounds interesting. Pretty soon the number of films about Welles will dwarf the number of films by him. How about this rumor?:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/42841

[Glenn Anders]

Yes, Alan, the riches of Welles and his work in various capacities seem only to be begun being tapped.

Mole-like characters like Franz Kindler in Welles' THE STRANGER or Harry Lime in Carol Reed's THE THIRD MAN provide an ambiguity which is as applicable to the Vietnam War or "the war on terror" as it it was to the beginnings of the Cold War in Post-World War II America and Europe. Anyone with a brain should suspect that the CIA has depended on Franz Kindlers and Harry Limes for cover or drug financed black operations over many years.

Surely, the task of of contemporary film makers in updating the setting of THE THIRD MAN could be a relatively easy one. After all, Graham Greene's later The Quiet American was a similar revision.

We shall have to see how they do.

Glenn

[Alan Brody]

I'll be surprised if they have the audacity to actually do it, but I'll keep an open mind. Hollywood is always remaking some classic, with mixed results.

If it comes off, the film about DeHory, Irving and Welles might make a good double feature with The Hoax, that pretty good movie with Richard Gere from a couple years ago, which already seems to have been forgotten in the shuffle.