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07-10-05, 09:34 PM
Al Pacino, the award-winner is set to play Napoleon in a new film
Barry Navidi will produce and Michael Radford will direct the flick. Both have worked with Pacino on The Merchant of Venice.
Navidi confirmed Pacino's participation and suggested dates already as well - "We were overjoyed when Al finally signed this week - we start filming next summer and hope to take it to Cannes Film Festival in 2007?.
He said something about the film too, "It is going to concentrate on the last few years of Napoleon's life in exile. We've based it on the diaries of British teenager Betsy Balcombe, who struck up a relationship with Napoleon when he was living on St. Helena, and with whom he subsequently became infatuated."
Harold Becker will direct the remake of 1955 French heist thriller and has chosen Al Pacino to star as the criminal mastermind
Scott Steindorff, and his company Stone village pictures has acquired the full rights for a remake version of 'Rififi', originally directed by Jules Dassin.
Tony, a criminal genius, just released out of prison and betrayed by his wife, decides to team up with friends from his past to plot the ultimate jewelry heist. Suddenly things start to go wrong.
The movie is best known for the actual heist scene. During the 30-minute robbery sequence of a jewelry store, not a word is spoken, not a sound, not even the background music.
Becker and Pacino have already worked together twice before, on "Sea of Love" and "City hall".
Pacino can next be seen in the dramatic thriller 'Two for the Money' with Matthew McConaughey.
Barry Navidi will produce and Michael Radford will direct the flick. Both have worked with Pacino on The Merchant of Venice.
Navidi confirmed Pacino's participation and suggested dates already as well - "We were overjoyed when Al finally signed this week - we start filming next summer and hope to take it to Cannes Film Festival in 2007?.
He said something about the film too, "It is going to concentrate on the last few years of Napoleon's life in exile. We've based it on the diaries of British teenager Betsy Balcombe, who struck up a relationship with Napoleon when he was living on St. Helena, and with whom he subsequently became infatuated."
Harold Becker will direct the remake of 1955 French heist thriller and has chosen Al Pacino to star as the criminal mastermind
Scott Steindorff, and his company Stone village pictures has acquired the full rights for a remake version of 'Rififi', originally directed by Jules Dassin.
Tony, a criminal genius, just released out of prison and betrayed by his wife, decides to team up with friends from his past to plot the ultimate jewelry heist. Suddenly things start to go wrong.
The movie is best known for the actual heist scene. During the 30-minute robbery sequence of a jewelry store, not a word is spoken, not a sound, not even the background music.
Becker and Pacino have already worked together twice before, on "Sea of Love" and "City hall".
Pacino can next be seen in the dramatic thriller 'Two for the Money' with Matthew McConaughey.