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Da gibt's immer die aktuellsten Sachen.Ewan McGregor at the opening night of exhibition 'BLINK' by Simon Boswell at the ICA in London. London, UK 5 November 2002
Das sieht sehr schlecht aus:
Fraglich ist auch, ob Ewan überhaupt noch mitspielen wird. Er ist im nächsten Jahr bis zum Sommer-Ende mit "Star Wars" beschäftigt...Jordan’s blockbuster on Borgias hits cash drama
IT’S supposed to be an epic, but it is turning into a tragedy. Neil Jordan’s $55m movie on the Borgias has been postponed again after a second finance deal fell through.
There must now be serious doubts about the hugely ambitious project, intended to be a British, Irish, Italian and German co-production. The blockbuster film, which was supposed to have proved how Europe can match Hollywood on epic projects, has an impressive international cast, headed by Ewan McGregor and Christina Ricci as Lucrezia Borgia.
But now production has been postponed until next year after a second financier got cold feet. In a reversal worthy of the Borgias themselves, Initial Entertainment Group has pulled out of a deal to fund the film about the notorious Renaissance family. Last summer the original financier, Myriad Pictures, also withdrew from Borgia in a dispute over budget levels.
“We have put it on hold,” Dublin-based Jordan confirmed yesterday. The Irish director blamed the collapse of the finance deal on the fact that “the entire foreign sales market has fallen through”.
He added: “I have a novel to finish and I’ll get back to it then. It will still probably have the same casting. Everyone is very committed to it.”
An official at Company of Wolves, Jordan’s production company, said the film had been “pushed right back until further notice, until at least after Christmas”. It is expected that Jordan will rejig his budget, scale down his ambitions and perhaps simplify the script. Also included in the cast are John Malkovich as Machiavelli, Jean Reno, Antonio Banderas and Ian McKellen.
This is a rare setback for Jordan, who won an Oscar for The Crying Game in 1993 and whose latest movie, A Good Thief, is being favourably reviewed in America. The failure of the Borgia movie, if it comes to that, would be an even bigger blow to the European film industry which is currently in recession. Finding enough funding for even small-scale European movies can involve up to four countries these days.
The last European blockbuster was Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, which also cost about $55m, but performed poorly at the box office, mak-ing film financiers even more sceptical.
Jordan’s movie is a historical drama, based on the infamous 16th-century Borgia family, including Lucrezia and Cesare and their father Roderigo, who bribed his way to becoming Pope Alexander VI and then ran the Vatican like a mafia godfather.
“This movie is about power and treachery and how a family is torn apart by getting what they want,” Jordan has said. “(The papacy) really tears them to shreds.”
Studio bosses originally wanted him to focus exclusively on much-married Lucrezia, but he decided against it. “I thought the entire family was more interesting,” he said. “After all, Cesare Borgia was sort of the Jack Kennedy of his time, dying so young.”
The director described the story as “kind of the basis for The Godfather . . . when Mario Puzo described it, he said it was like The Borgias set in Little Italy”.
The film was to be shot in Umbria and at Babelsberg studios in Germany.
Jordan has written three novels and a collection of short stories. His last novel was Sunrise with Sea Monster, published in 1994, telling the story of an Irish prisoner awaiting execution during the Spanish civil war.
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