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Hauer circles Alicia Scherson's 'Future'

Helmer leads first Roberto Bolano film adaptation

By Nick Vivarelli



ROME -- Rutger Hauer is in advanced talks to join Alicia Scherson's ''The Future,'' the first film adaptation of cult Latin American novelist Roberto Bolano's work.

Hauer is circling the role of Maciste, a onetime herculean star at Rome's Cinecitta studios who befriends two orphans left to their own devices in the Italian capital.

Italo A-lister Nicolas Vaporidis (''Night Before Exams'') and young Italo thesp Luigi Ciardo (''Martino's Summer'') are attached as protags alongside previously announced Chilean actress Manuela Martelli (''Machuca'').

Cameras started rolling today (July 14) in Cologne, Germany, on the coming-of-age drama. The production will be moving to Rome soon, and subsequently to Santiago de Chile.

Scherson is a buzzed-about young Chilean helmer whose previous pics are ''Play,'' which took the best new director nod in Tribeca, and ''Tourists'' which made a splash at Rotterdam.

''The Future,'' which is based on the Bolano novella ''Una Novelita Lumpen'' is centered on two Chilean children whose parents die in a car crash in Italy. They quickly descend into a spiral of prostitution and petty crime in Rome.

Pic is a four-way co-production between Chile's Bruno Bettati, Germany's Pandora, Italy's Movimento Film, and Spain's Astronauta Films.

The late Chilean-born Bolano in recent years has gained a readership comparable in scale to Gabriel Garcia Marquez with bestseller ''The Savage Detectives''. He is the winner of a slew of international literary prizes, including a National Book Circle nod for his novel ''2666.''

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118039882

Wow.

i didnt realize rutger hauer is the guy from blade runner/sin city/batman begins

Wait, is this going to be in English or Mexican?

i would assume spanish

i also found this from a year ago:

Great news from QuietEarth again. This time they're reporting on a new sci-fi film hitting the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 14-16, 2010), directed by Chilean filmmaker Alicia Scherson, called The Future. Scherson has adapted Roberto Bolaño's little known apocalyptic novel, "Una Novelita Lumpen."

Scherson says, "since I first read it, I found it to be small and dense like a gemstone. An austere and concise work of contained emotions, a lucid and lean reflection about youth and despair in big cities. Its simple forms and precision is exactly what makes it so adaptable to film..."

"In 16 short chapters, 'Una Novelita Lumpen' tells the story of Bianca, a young woman who must face her parents’ death and start a long and dark voyage through poverty and prostitution. But this downfall into the lumpen becomes a trip to adulthood, a clumsy and dangerous way to mourn, to accept death and face the future."

crazy UK cover

His poetry--not that good.

Blanes, here I come.

2666 was amazing.

I've been on sacred ground.

can i lick ur feet

whats a good first place to start with this fella, just so i can stop being sick of seeing this thread on the front page of a&e and not knowing what the fuck its about

probably distant star
skating rink would also be a good intro
when the third reich comes out in november, that would also be a good intro

or you could just jump into 2666. his best work, but over 900 pages so intimidating to some, but it is split into 5 separate parts.

another option would be to read a few short stories.
there are a bunch on the new yorker's site and others available online. i think i posted 'sensini' earlier in this thread.

Thanks, fella. Ill probably start with Third Reich. My reading schedule is pretty much booked through november

Amazing? Really? Amazing?

Amulet and Third Reich would make a good intro.

Distant Star should follow, then Detectives or the amazing 2666.

I wouldn't start with his short stories. By Night in Chile would be his best short work, along with Amulet. Go there.

I mean, yeah. I loved it.