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FILM NEWS: #WaitingfortheBarbarians Fully Financed by AMBI Media Group “a rich story deserving of a big screen retelling”

Robert Pattinson “Waiting for the Barbarians” slated to begin shooting this fall

Ciro Guerra has been much in the news since his “Birds of Passage” opened Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.  Good news emerged today that AMBI Media Group is fully financing “Waiting for the Barbarians”.  According to Variety:

Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s AMBI Media Group will fully finance the upcoming adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s prize-winning novel “Waiting for the Barbarians.”

Ciro Guerra (“Embrace the Serpent,” “Birds of Passage”) is directing the film. AMBI Media Group will produce with Michael Fitzgerald and Olga Segura.

AMBI Group is a consortium of film development, production, finance and distribution companies wholly owned and operated by Iervolino and Monika Gomez del Campo Bacardi, Lady of Bayfield Hall, better known as “Monika Bacardi.”

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AMBI’s Andrea Iervolino stated, “’Waiting for the Barbarians’ is a rich story deserving of a big screen retelling, and Monika and I are very happy to join Michael and Olga to make this happen. We’re excited to get started on this production.”

Principal photography is slated to begin this fall in Europe and North Africa.

UPDATED: 

Production Weekly showing Status as Fall 2018 together filming locations and much to chagrin of some, Johnny Depp in cast.

 

Thanks @CandeyQ