Andy Garcia, who starred in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather: Part III,” is moving ahead with a long-planned passion project about Ernest Hemingway and the Cuban boat captain who inspired the novelist’s “The Old Man and the Sea.”
“If the movie gods are with us, we’ll shoot it at the end of the summer,” Garcia says of “Hemingway & Fuentes,” which was first announced at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
After delays, Anthony Hopkins dropped out, but Jon Voight came on board last month.
Garcia will co-star and direct.
He tells Cigar Aficionado in a cover story: “If this were a studio movie, it would probably cost $30 million to $40 million. I’d be happy if we could get to $15 million.”