Variety brings us one of the more oddball pieces of casting news in at least a day or so: British comedian Steve Coogan, Sofia Coppola‘s Somewhere star Stephen Dorff, and Canadian rapper K’naan will be headlining documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield‘s adaptation of Ronan Bennett‘s novel, The Catastrophist.
What’s so weird about this? Well, the novel is described as “a love story set against the Belgian Congo’s decolonization in the 1960s.” Beyond that, Broomfield apparently wants to shoot this in the Tanzanian mining town of Mwanza. If they can pull this off, it will mark the first foreign production in that part of Africa since Howard Hawks directed John Wayne in the jungle adventure flick Hatari! in 1962. (Don’t feel bad if you haven’t seen it — it’s not exactly The African Queen.)
Broomfield is famous for his controversial documentaries, most notably Kurt & Courtney,...
What’s so weird about this? Well, the novel is described as “a love story set against the Belgian Congo’s decolonization in the 1960s.” Beyond that, Broomfield apparently wants to shoot this in the Tanzanian mining town of Mwanza. If they can pull this off, it will mark the first foreign production in that part of Africa since Howard Hawks directed John Wayne in the jungle adventure flick Hatari! in 1962. (Don’t feel bad if you haven’t seen it — it’s not exactly The African Queen.)
Broomfield is famous for his controversial documentaries, most notably Kurt & Courtney,...
- 9/5/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Steve Coogan, Stephen Dorff and Canadian rapper K'naan are all set to star in British director Nick Broomfield's "The Catastrophist" for Lafayette Films, Escape Pictures and Blighty's Channel 4 reports Variety.
An adaptation of Ronan Bennett's romance novel which is set against the decolonisation of the Belgian Congo in 1959 & 1960, the story follows an apathetic Irishman arriving in Léopoldsville to save his relationship with an Italian journalist covering central African politics and committed to Patrice Lummumba's nationalist movement.
Shooting will take place in Tanzanian mining town of Mwanza as the actual Congo is considered too risky to film, and will be the first foreign film to shoot in the country since 1962's "Hatari".
Broomfield and Paul Miller will produce. Broomfield shot the albino soccer team documentary "Albino United" in Tanzania last year.
An adaptation of Ronan Bennett's romance novel which is set against the decolonisation of the Belgian Congo in 1959 & 1960, the story follows an apathetic Irishman arriving in Léopoldsville to save his relationship with an Italian journalist covering central African politics and committed to Patrice Lummumba's nationalist movement.
Shooting will take place in Tanzanian mining town of Mwanza as the actual Congo is considered too risky to film, and will be the first foreign film to shoot in the country since 1962's "Hatari".
Broomfield and Paul Miller will produce. Broomfield shot the albino soccer team documentary "Albino United" in Tanzania last year.
- 9/1/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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