An international film crew in recent weeks has been re-enacting this and other historic scenes in the streets of Havana for “Papa,” a biopic about the budding friendship between Hemingway and the reporter in the turbulent Cuba of the 1950s.
Years in the making, producers say it is the first full-length feature film with a Hollywood director and actors to be shot in the country since the 1959 revolution.
And my favorite snippet from the AP piece:
There have also been some only-in-Cuba moments of frustration. In a country with a history of high-seas defections, something as simple as getting on a boat requires official approval. So when cast members’ names were missing from a list one day, an open-water shoot was delayed.
How’s that, AP? Well, we’re perplexed. Because for over a year now the AP’s own “reporters” (i.e. stenographers) have been “reporting” (i.e. transcribing) how the Castro regime has lifted all travel/emigration restrictions on its subjects. And implying how the U.S is now the bad guy by not lifting travel restrictions on Americans to Cuba.
When you report about a movie project in the U.S. halted for fear that a few American citizens might have boarded a boat–THEN we’ll consider the U.S. the “bad guys” on travel.
Le ZZZZUMBA!!!
Is this the Andy Garcia movie?
No, Asombra. Different one. Plans for Andy’s seem to keep stumbling. Anthony Hopkins is out as Papa–and Joh Voight in. Supposed to be shot in Dominican Republic….http://www.contactmusic.com/article/anthony-hopkins-ernest-hemingway-movie-andy-garcia_4045699
Maybe Andy should take the hint, then. Jon Voight, btw, sounds like bad casting.