這位上世紀20年代戰爭詩人兼愛情詩人的愛情關係為主軸的電影，開花演詩人男主角Robert Graves.
來源：http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cultu ... racy-new-light.html
Robert Graves film to show the writer in a racy new light
With his moving war poetry and heavyweight historical novels, Robert Graves is remembered as one of the most serious and respected writers of the 20th century.
But a new film about the early life of the poet and novelist is set to challenge that legacy, depicting Graves as a sexually adventurous bohemian embroiled in scandal.
The Laureate will feature the Hollywood star Orlando Bloom as Graves, whose most famous works include I, Claudius and Poems About War.
Set in Oxford and London in the 1920s, the film will focus on the writer's colourful private life, which saw him live in a ménage à trois with his first wife, the artist Nancy Nicholson and their four children, and his mistress, the American poet Laura Riding, as he struggled to make a living as a writer.
It will depict the group sharing a house in Hammersmith's St Peter's Square, then the bohemian capital of London known as "free love corner", where Graves, Nicholson and Riding were joined by the Irish poet, Geoffrey Phibbs.
While the exact nature of the foursome's relationships has never been established, the film will portray both men enjoying an open relationship with Nicholson and Riding.
The production will also show Riding's suicide attempt, which saw her jump out of a window, and Graves being questioned – but later cleared – by police over Riding's attempted murder, following the incident.
The film, described as "provocative" and "racy" by its makers, will begin filming later this year.
William Nunez, writer and director on the project, said: "At its core, The Laureate will be a study of intense relationships.
"People often forget that Graves was one of the great love poets, and this film charts his transformation from war poet to love poet, and how his progression into a bohemian, scandalous world helped feed that creativity."
William Graves, one of Graves' four children by his second wife, Beryl, and the executor of his estate, said: "While Robert had a rather puritanical and Victorian approach to his work, his life was fascinating and complicated during that period.
"I don't think there was an open, four-way relationship between them all, but then who was in bed with who is historically very difficult to check and I'm sure the filmmakers will use dramatic license.
"Many people remember Robert from his long period of decline towards the end of his life when he was going senile, so I hope this film might renew interest in his vast achievements before."
Despite their volatile relationship, Riding, who will be played by the actress Imogen Poots, is credited as being a major influence on Graves' most famous works, including his autobiography, Good-Bye to All That, published in 1929 and The White Goddess, Graves's study of poetic inspiration published in 1948, for which Riding is said to have been his muse.
She is also believed to have helped him recover from shell-shock, from which he suffered for more than 10 years after being badly wounded at the Battle of the Somme.
Graves's increasing preference for Riding over his wife eventually led to the breakdown of his marriage to Nicholson, who will be played in the film by Kerry Condon.
Riding and Graves later moved to Majorca and then the United States, but in 1939 she left him for the American writer Schuyler Jackson. In 1950, Graves married Beryl Hodge, and the couple lived in Majorca until his death in 1985, aged 90.
Miranda Seymour, the author of Life on the Edge, a biography of Graves, said: "People really only know two versions of Robert Graves – the young war poet and the mad old man on an island.
"This story is the yawning gap and will hopefully return people to a sense of him as a very modern and adventurous figure, not a war poet stuck in the past.
"He is a fine enough writer to rise above any scandal that will be depicted in the film."
來源2:http://blogs.indiewire.com/thepl ... drama_the_laureate/
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Orlando Bloom & Imogen Poots To Star In The Period Drama ‘The Laureate’
Kerry Condon Also Joins, Dominic Cooper and Hayley Atwell Out
or a time at the beginning of the 21st century, it seemed that you couldn’t get a blockbuster period piece greenlit without the presence of British star Orlando Bloom. After breaking out as badass elf Legolas in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Bloom turned up in “Troy,” “Kingdom of Heaven” and the first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” films—hell, even Cameron Crowe anointed him as the star of his contemporary rom-com “Elizabethtown.”
Unfortunately, we all know how that one turned out, and it became increasingly clear over time that Bloom’s performances were whittled from a mighty oak—sure, he could look pretty and swing a sword, but emoting? Not so much. Bloom’s now been pretty much absent from the big-screen for four years, outside of a brief cameo in “New York, I Love You,” and a role in the still-undistributed Mark Ruffalo-helmed “Sympathy for Delicious.”
But with three roles coming up in 2011, including a villainous turn in Paul W.S. Anderson‘s “The Three Musketeers,” and a reprisal of Legolas in “The Hobbit” looking likely, the Bloom comeback is in full force, and hopefully the actor has used his time away to, well, learn how to act. He’ll face his biggest challenge in a newly announced project, in which the actor will play legendary war poet Robert Graves.
Screen Daily announces that Bloom will topline “The Laureate,” a project from Media 8 (”Running Scared”) and writer/director William Nunez, which shows the love triangle between Graves, his wife, the artist Nancy Nicholson, and the American poet Laura Riding. The three lived together in Cairo and London in an open triangle for many years, until Graves began to favor Riding. Bloom will be joined by Playlist favorite Imogen Poots (the upcoming “Fright Night”), who’ll play Riding, and rising Irish star Kerry Condon (”The Last Station”), who’ll play Nicholson.
When the project was first announced at Cannes last year, the “Captain America” duo of Dominic Cooper and Hayley Atwell were attached, but both have fallen off due to scheduling conflicts. Director Nunez says that: “At its core, ‘The Laureate’ will be a study of intense relationships: what created them, what can undo them, what they encompass, what they can alter, and what they can’t.”
It certainly seems like there’s plenty of drama here to sustain a decent period drama (albeit one that sounds not unlike the John Maybury-helmed Dylan Thomas biopic “The Edge of Love” from a few years back), and Condon and Poots are certainly terrific actresses, even if Nunez is something of an unknown quantity, and swapping in Bloom for Cooper is something of a step down, to say the least. There’s no word on when filming will kick off, although Media 8 will start to lure buyers at the European Film Market next month. |
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