"Goya's Ghosts" scribe Jean-Claude Carriere to pen "Aesop" featureFebruary 10, 2014 - 19:04 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Jean-Claude Carriere, who co-wrote the Afghanistan-set drama “The Patience Stone” with Golshifteh Farahani, is now writing “Aesop”, a feature centering on the life the ancient Greek storyteller. Budgeted in the $7 million range, “Aesop” is produced by Raphael Berdugo’s Cite Films, Variety reported. Taking place in the Middle East, pic will weave animation and live action. Pic, set in the fifth century B.C., will chronicle the rise and fall of Aesop, who lived among animals and became a slave. After his masters noticed his intelligence, Aesop was freed and became a powerful diplomat for King Croesus, but his life ended tragically after he was framed for a crime and sentenced to death. “The story of Aesop is truly epic and universal,” said Berdugo, who’s looking for German and Italian co-production partners. “We’re not aiming to make an academic film, but rather an entertaining film filled with humor.” The project, which will lense in Morocco, has received coin from France’s CNC. Cite Films’ recent co-productions include Pan Nalin’s documentary “Faith Connections,” which world-preemed at Toronto;other upscale films co-produced by Berdugo include “Salvo,” “Respiro” and “Caramel.” Berdugo previously founded and ran Roissy, one of France’s biggest production and sales houses, which was acquired by Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp in 2008. Berdugo said he aims at co-producing two films per year and handles sales on some of these pics. Related links: Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |