Anthony Hopkins, who has embodied a solid of real-life characters in his lengthy profession, starting from Richard Nixon (in Nixon) and Sigmund Freund (Freud’s Final Session) to Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock), and Adolf Hitler (1981 TV film The Bunker), is ready to play composer George Frideric Handel within the upcoming function The King of Covent Backyard.
Minamata filmmaker Andrew Levitas is connected to direct the biopic targeted on how the German-British Baroque composer created his 1741 masterpiece Messiah. Tim Slover wrote the screenplay. Dan Lupovitz and Kevan Van Thompson will produce.
Opera star Katherine Jenkins is connected as an govt producer on the challenge and will likely be concerned as a musical advisor on the challenge in addition to serving to with future advertising efforts. Peter Touche (Army Wives, The Son) can also be govt producing.
Embankment Movies is dealing with international pre-sales on The King of Covent Backyard and will likely be pitching it to consumers on the Cannes Movie Market later this month. The pitch: “a powerfully majestic celebration of genius breaking all the foundations to create an anthem inspiring the favored creativeness of world audiences.” The movie is eying a late fall 2025 launch.
Embankment additionally dealt with worldwide gross sales on Hopkins’ The Father, which earned the Welsh actor his second greatest actor Oscar. His first, in fact, got here for enjoying Hannibal Lecter in 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs.
In an announcement, Levitas stated the movie’s story will hinge upon “an unlikely pair, who meet one another at their lowest factors, and collectively create an impressive never-heard-before ‘sound for the individuals’: the groundbreaking masterpiece Messiah, the annual international bestseller for near 300 years.” He stated Slover’s script “is populated by passionate, real-life expertise in all its colour and filth, making a riveting human story with stunning up to date relevancy, common human connectivity and non secular uplift.”
Hopkins is represented by UTA and Mitch Smelkinson at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson and Christopher.