Film con Ridley Scott, (Ancora senza titolo)

la notizia del giorno è la voce su un possibile film di Gerry diretto da Ridley Scott!
Sembra promettente se non fosse che il film ha il solito scenario di combattimenti e soldati...perchè si vuole fossilizzare con certi ruoli??

Ridley Scott And Gerard Butler Plot Film About Simon Mann, Who Tried African Coup

EXCLUSIVE: While the material marketplace has cooled as the holiday approaches, studios have been tempted by a pitch for a fact-based thriller that has Ridley Scott attached to direct and produce through his Scott Free banner, Gerard Butler to star, and Robert Edwards (The Bomb In My Garden) to write the script. Scott will produce with Giannina Facio and Alan Siegel. Butler wants to play Simon Mann, a former British army officer who in 2004 put together a band of mercenaries to attempt a coup against the president of Equatorial Guinea. The coup attempt was thwarted in Zimbabwe, where Mann went to pick up weapons. He spent five years in a harsh prison there before being taken to Equatorial Guinea where he was sentenced to 34 years–but spared that sentence when he received a presidential pardon in 2009.. His backers –Mann said one was Mark Thatcher, son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher—disavowed involvement with Mann after the coup failed. Both Mann and his wife Amanda have been making the rounds at studios the past several days along with Edwards, and insiders say there are high hopes this will end in a deal. Scott and Facio are also developing a biopic of Middle East pioneer Gertrude Bell and Gucci, the Fox 2000 focusing on the volatile relationship between Maurizio Gucci and ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani, who drew a 26-year sentence for plotting his 1995 murder. Angelina Jolie has been mentioned for Gertrude Bell and Natalie Portman for Gucci.

www.deadline.com/2011/11/ridley-sco...d-african-coup/


gli articoli sull'argomento sono molti:posterei anche questo:

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/new-ridley-...pped-to-studios

n another bit of Ridley Scott news (our second today), it's being reported that the "Prometheus" director is now attached to helm a fact-based thriller with Gerard Butler in the starring role and scribe Robert Edwards penning the script.

Butler would play Simon Mann, a former British Army officer who, after being caught smuggling arms at a Zimbabwean airport with a group of South African mercenaries in 2004, was convicted of attempting a failed coup against the government of dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in Equatorial Guinea. After spending nearly four years in a Zimbabwean prison, Mann was later extradited to Guinea and subsequently sentenced by a court there to more than 34 years imprisonment for his involvement. He was released in November 2009 on "humanitarian grounds", receiving a full pardon from Mbagoso. It is believed Mann negotiated a deal implicating other individuals and governments in the coup attempt in exchange for being set free.

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Evidence also linked U.K. businessman Mark Thatcher - the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - to the coup attempt, and in January 2005 Thatcher pled guilty to "unwittingly" providing financial backing for the operation in a South African court. He was given a four-year suspended sentence and fined 3 million rand (the South African currency), though it's believed by many that the wealthy political son was nakedly attempting to profit from the overthrow of Mbagoso (the African country is rich in oil reserves).

According to Deadline, the project is currently being shopped to studios by Mann, his wife Amanda and screenwriter Edwards. With the involvement of Butler and Scott, the latter of whom is also producing, it seems likely this one will end up landing somewhere soon enough.

Scott's next film is "Prometheus" a sci-fi/action movie starring Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace and Idris Elba. The film is slated for release on June 8, 2012.

Butler will next be seen in the upcoming sports-comedy film "Playing the Field" opposite Jessica Biel and Dennis Quaid. It's set to hit theaters on March 9th.



Edited by arielcips - 18/11/2011, 14:16

il progetto piace anche a me,Ridley Scott è quello che è,mi farebbe piacere!!E' solo la storia...vabbè speriamo che,se è vero,venga bene

Aggiungo la versione italiana dell'articolo,da comingsoon:

Forse Gerard Butler mercenario per Ridley Scott

Dopo Prometheus, Ridley Scott ha una marea di progetti in via di sviluppo (di un altro parliamo nella notizia su Angelina Jolie).

Adesso il regista ha appena giusto alla sua lunga lista, un film basato su una storia vera che parla di mercenari, con Gerard Butler come protagonista. Robert Edwards è già stato assunto per scrivere la sceneggiatura, tratta dalle imprese dell'ex ufficiale dell'esercito britannico Simon Mann.

Nel 2004 Mann mise insieme un gruppo di mercenari per effettuare un colpo di stato contro il presidente della Guinea Equatoriale. Fu arrestato mentre andava nello Zimbabwe a procurarsi le armi e passò 5 anni in prigione. Dopo il suo rilascio fu mandato in Guinea e condannato ad altri 34 anni di prigione, e in seguito graziato. Il vero scandalo nacque dal fatto che Mann dichiarò che Mark Thatcher, figlio della Lady di Ferro, era uno dei suoi finanziatori. Ovviamente quest'ultimo negò il tutto.

www.comingsoon.it/News_Articoli/News/Page/?Key=10180

uh,a questo non avevo pensato... grandeeeeee

pare che il Sig.Mann abbia già parlato con Gerry,che si è detto molto interessato alla vicenda,soprattutto di come si possa vivere in una prigione africana,e che,essendo un fan di Ridley Scott,stava cercando una sceneggiatura per poter lavorare con lui.

Gerard Butler 'to play Simon Mann in Wonga Coup film'
Butler hopes to team up with Gladiator director Ridley Scott to tell the mercenary's story

THE STORY of Old Etonian Simon Mann's failed attempt to overthrow the government in Equatorial Guinea in 2004 – often called the Wonga Coup - could be made into a film by Ridley Scott, director of Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and Alien.

The driving force behind the project is the Scottish actor Gerard Butler who, according to the Mail on Sunday, is keen to play the role of Mann, the mercenary who spent nearly six miserable years in jail, first in Zimbabwe and then Equatorial Guinea, before he was released in 2009.

After meeting the actor, Mann, now 59, tells the Mail: "'Gerry was fascinated by the Wonga Coup, but more so by what happened afterwards, by how you survive in an African prison."

According to Mann, Butler is a fan of Ridley Scott's movies and has been looking for a screenplay that would bring them together.

Mann clearly hopes his own recent book about the failed coup, Cry Havoc, will form the basis for the film. As Mann points out, it is more than a military drama and a grisly prison ordeal – there's also a love story element.

His wife Amanda, having stood by him while he languished in jail for more than five years – including a final 15 months in the notorious Black Beach jail in Malabo - wrote to say she was divorcing him just two weeks before President Obiang of Equatorial Guinea signed his pardon in November 2009. As the Mail reports, "She took him back the instant he was released".

http://www.theweek.co.uk/film/42810/gerard..._medium=twitter

aah bene mi fa piacere,dai!
(è la solita clausola fatemi-dare-almeno-un-bacio-dallo-strafigo delle attrici protagoniste )