Hopkins and Bening mingle with Hemingway

Annette Bening and Anthony Hopkins are both attaching themselves to the new Andy Garcia film “Hemingway and Fuentes”. Hopkins will be playing the role of Ernest Hemingway while Bening will play Hemingway’s third wife. Garcia will play the role of Gregorio Fuentes, the best friend of Hemingway. This will be Garcia’s latest directed feature since his 2005 film “The Lost City”. Here’s more on the upcoming project straight from Andy Garcia from Variety:

“I was specifically most interested in Hemingway’s connection to Cuba, where he spent the last 20 years of his life, and his relationship with his last captain, Gregorio,” Garcia said. “As an avid fisherman, I got to know

older Cuban fisherman who knew Gregorio from the fishing culture of the 40s and 50s, and who would compete in tournaments outside the city of Havana, which was really the beginning of competitive fishing.”

“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. The marketplace is ever changing in the film world, so you’re trolling many baits, waiting to see where the strikes are. Officially, we are going out with the movie and starting conversations with all foreign distributors. I’ve done about six movies that way, and sold domestic later. When I worked with Francis Coppola on `The Godfather 3,’ he said the way you make a movie is, you begin. We’ve begun.”

Garcia will be producing under CineSon Entertainment with Mark Amin under Sobini Films executive producing. The project is scheduled to start filming sometime next year.