[AUT] Marx movie

["Peter Jovanovic" <peterzoran@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: 
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=07/02/27/1744241&mode=nested&tid=22

Francis Wheen: Show Me the Kapital to make "Karl Marx the Movie" Oliver Duff

Francis Wheen's 1999 biography of Karl Marx portrayed an endearing, 
cigar-chomping Victorian hellraiser prone to intellectual bullying, drunken 
pub crawls and organising his daughter's suitors; penniless and largely 
ignored in his lifetime. Fans of the book included the militia leaders of 
Afghanistan's anti-Taliban Northern Alliance.

Now Wheen, columnist, historian and deputy editor of Private Eye, is in 
talks to turn his opus into a film. On Friday, he met in Paris with the 
Haitian director Raoul Peck, a former cab driver who became the Haitian 
Culture minister during a brief democratic hiatus, soon to work with Martin 
Scorsese.

"It's early days, but quite exciting," Wheen tells Pandora. "Raoul Peck 
seems very nice. We're putting together a treatment and finding funds from 
somewhere."

Wheen has been here before - in 1999, with movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, 
then boss of Miramax. Weinstein sent his emissary Tina Brown to London to 
tell Wheen that he loved the book, wanted Tom Stoppard to write a screenplay 
and planned to cast Ralph Fiennes as Marx and Gwyneth Paltrow as the 
aristocratic wife, Jenny von Westphalen.

Weinstein and Brown's interest evaporated. A subsequent BBC dramatisation 
was pulled when Greg Dyke "suddenly said he was fed up with 19th-century 
dramas with bonnets". Says Wheen: "I explained, unsuccessfully, that there 
aren't many bonnets in the Marx story."

Wheen's ideal casting? "Johnny Depp and [his wife] Vanessa Paradis."

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