Michael Cimino's unrealized projects: Difference between revisions

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=== ''Man's Fate'' ===

It was reported in 2001 that Cimino was planning to make a film adaptation of [[André Malraux]]'s novel ''[[Man's Fate]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Michael Cimino: war stories|date=6 December 2001|publisher=''[[The Guardian]]''|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/dec/06/artsfeatures|accessdate=1 August 2019|quote=His latest plan is to make a movie of André Malraux's La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate). He has the same publisher as Malraux, and earlier this year was awarded a Chevalier des Arts and des Lettres in Paris, a prize previously won by the French novelist. If it comes off, this exploration of a communist uprising in Shanghai will be on a gigantic scale, and Cimino, now in his late 50s, plans to shoot on ___location in China.}}</ref> Cimino claimed in 2010 that he had half of the budget needed to make the film.<ref>{{cite web|last=Garbarino|first=Steve|title=Michael Cimino's Final Cut|date=15 April 2010|publisher=''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)]]''|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2010/04/ciminos-final-cut-200203|accessdate=1 August 2019|quote=Cimino has written an adaptation of André Malraux’s 1933 novel about the early days of the Chinese Revolution, Man’s Fate. “The screenplay, I think, is the best one I’ve ever done,” he says, adding that he has “half the money; [we’re] trying to raise the other half.”}}</ref> Cimino confirmed in a 2015 interview with ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' that he worked on the adapted script for one year and still hoped to make the film some day.<ref name=abramovitch/>

=== ''Porgy & Bess'' ===

According to his ''[[Suttgarter Nachrichten]]'' obituary, Cimino attempted to adapt ''Porgy & Bess''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Zum Tod des Hollywood-Schrecks Michael Cimino: Visionär und Egomane|date=3 July 2016|publisher=''[[Stuttgarter Nachrichten]]''|url=https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.zum-tod-des-hollywood-schrecks-michael-cimino-visionaer-und-egomane.752ff3bf-2e2e-4948-9be0-d8a375e0147d.html|accessdate=14 August 2019}}Article in German</ref>

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