Spain´s most profilic producer Andres Vicente Gomez has unveiled a new production slate, which confirms his ambition to make high-profile, upscale European films with an international appeal.
New projects include a Spanish/Italian big-screen adaptation of the second part of Cervantes'The Quixote, with Marcelo Mastroainni slated for the lead role; two films with Fernando Trueba, the Oscar-winning director of Belle epoque and Two Much; an (undisclosed) project with Michael Radford; and the return of Victir Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive; The South) to fiction feature films in El embrujo de Shanghai (Shanghai Gesture), based on a novel by Spanish writer Juan Marse.
Shanghai Gesture will be shot in China and Barcelona.
Irvin Kirschner´s English-language US$12 million Minor Key of Love, based of a fictional recreation of episodes in the life of the composer Puccini, will roll this May
Fernando Trueba´s next feature film, which marks his return to Spanish-language filmmaking, will be La niña de sus ojos (literally "His Blue-Eyed Girl)", a screwball comedy, scripted by Rafael Azcona, with whom Trueba teamed up on Belle epoque. The film turns on the real-life crush which Nazi Goebbels conceived for the top Spanish actress of the time. Berlin-set, the picture will be structured as a Spanish/German co-production.
John Hopewell
