Haitian director
Raoul Peck is set to shoot a movie biopic of the young adventures of German philisopher
Karl Marx says
The Hollywood Reporter. The English language movie will be made on a budget of around $20 million for Paris-based production company JBA Prods.
Dark Horizons give us this...
Set between 1830-1848, the project includes Marx's time in Paris before being expelled to Brussels and culminating with the publication of the Communist Manifesto. The story also will encompass Marx's love for his aristocratic wife Jenny von Westphalen, and his friendship with Friedrich Engels, with whom he co-authored the Manifesto. The screenplay is co-written by Peck and Pascal Bonitzer ("Lumumba").
With the movie being set at the time when Marx was still young, the intention with the flick is to cast young actors to fill the roles. Shooting isn't scheduled to begin until next year, for a release towards the fall of 2008. Whether you agree with Marx's theories or not is pretty much an irrelevant matter when it comes to this flick. He was an important figure in the history of philosophy and with a strong actor, it could make an interesting little movie.