Writer-director Andrew Haigh has never made a bad anything. Every movie he has directed, right back to his debut film Greek Pete in 2009, has been at base wonderful and at best a masterpiece -- right up to last year's number one movie All of Us Strangers. His TV series -- Looking and The North Water -- are both tremendous accomplishments. He is quite simply one of the greatest directors working today, and even more importantly he is MNPP Royalty. He should be discussed as one of the greats every damn time his name comes up. Anyway I'm happy to report that he's being handed a project of import from a big studio next -- Universal has hired him to direct its Leonardo Da Vinci bio-pic, which they've been trying to make for awhile, based on Walter Isaacson’s 2017 biography. Da Vinci was of course a big ol' 'mo, so it tracks that Haigh would be interested in this, and my interest just shot up like a rocket. Now we turn our mind to casting. Below is a portrait of Da Vinci as a young man. Not that anybody should give a shit if the actor hired looks like him here five centuries later -- let's just let Haigh hire the best actor for the gig. And given his track record, he will. But who would you cast?
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ReplyDeleteThe artist was Rembrandt.
ReplyDeleteFred Hechinger
ReplyDelete"The artist was Rembrandt."
ReplyDeleteYou mean of the painting? It's not a self-portrait? Okay that's what I get for trusting Google! Useless search engine it has become
I believe it's a self-portrait OF Rembrandt, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteOh jeez I give up lol
ReplyDeleteOkay I changed the picture! This one I am like fairly sure is right
ReplyDeleteBased on that pic, I'd say Lukas Haas
ReplyDeleteJonny Bailey of course
ReplyDeleteAidan Turner already played Leonardo in a series-series was forgettable, but he was great.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Italian Star Alessandro Borghi (one of Eight Mountains co-leading men)
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