24 August 2003
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Luhrmann gives Hare 'Great'
gig
By Adam Dawtrey
"David Hare, I need your words." So said Nicole Kidman in her Oscar acceptance speech for her role in "The Hours," adapted by Hare.
Baz Luhrmann clearly shares her sentiment, for he has hired the veteran British playwright (himself an Oscar nominee for "The Hours") to pen the script for his "Alexander the Great."
Luhrmann has already written something between a treatment and a screenplay, laying out his vision for the drama.
Producer Dino De Laurentiis has sent Luhrmann's draft to several potential foreign distributors, albeit with a cover note explaining the final version will be significantly improved.
Luhrmann's "Alexander the Great" (not, of course, to be confused with Oliver Stone's Intermedia movie, which stars Colin Farrell and starts shooting Sept. 22) is backed by Universal and DreamWorks, and is scheduled to roll sometime in 2004. Kidman is set to co-star with Leonardo Di Caprio, although their involvement, as usual, is contingent on script approval.
Kidman's association with Hare goes back to her naked triumph in the London staging of Hare's play "The Blue Room" in 1998
Hare is adapting "The Corrections" for Stephen Daldry and Scott Rudin."