From Broadway World:
Production wrapped today [14 December 2018] in ROME on one of the most buzzed about films of the year – the feature adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s prize-winning novel “Waiting for the Barbarians”, directed by Ciro Guerra, produced by Andrea Iervolino, Monika Bacardi, and starring multiple Academy Award® nominee Johnny Depp (“Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise), Academy Award® winner Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies,” “Dunkirk,” “Ready Player One”) and Robert Pattinson (“The Twilight Saga”, “Good Time,” “The Lost City of Z”).
…Waiting for the Barbarians” centers on the crisis of the conscience of the Magistrate (Rylance) – a loyal servant of the EMPIRE working in a tiny frontier town. A warrant officer for the Empire, Mandel (Pattinson), is sent to replace the Magistrate’s position after the Magistrate has been charged with treason – consorting with the barbarians. Johnny Depp plays the sinister Colonel Joll.
The story is a startling allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed. Mandel is a character that must choose between what he feels is right and his duty to the EMPIRE in the midst of conflict.
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