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Garcia to direct Hopkins and Bening in "Hemingway and Fuentes"

11/5/2009

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After Anthony Hopkins finishes filming his godlike role in Thor, he'll have some other big shoes to fill: Ernest Hemingway's. Director Andy Garcia has just landed the accomplished thespian for Hemingway and Fuentes, a script he's been kicking around for years.

The film chronicles the two decades that Hemingway spent in Cuba fishing with his best friend, Gregorio Fuentes. There, the author fell in love with a beautiful Italian girl who inspired him to write The Old Man and the Sea. Garcia will play Fuentes, and Annette Bening will play the author's third wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway.

According to Variety, Garcia is pretty thrilled to have snagged Hopkins (duh): “Anthony is one of the greatest actors, and I’d heard he’d been interested in playing the character in the past,” Garcia said. “I’m blessed that he responded."

--Darcie Duttweiler

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