Dali & I: The Surreal Story News

Cillian Murphy Joins Al Pacino in Dali and I: The Surreal Story

September 15, 2007 10:09:48

Equal acting partner for Al Pacino in biographical flick "Dali & I: The Surreal Story" is eventually found. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Golden Globes-nominee Cillian Murphy has already been signed to join the veteran actor in the cast.

Based on Stan Lauryssens’ autobiographical book of the same name, pic, which will span the 1960s-80s, follows the time in the life of famed painter Salvador Dali when most of his great work was behind him and he became more flamboyant. Murphy is billed to play Lauryssens, an art dealer whom Pacino’s Dali developed a mentor-protege relationship with.

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Al Pacino Is "Dali"

January 19, 2007 05:01:33

It's perfectly cast, really. Variety has delightfully reported that Al Pacino is positive to topline Room 9 Entertainment's dramatic feature "Dali & I: The Surreal Story" and will portray none other than the famed Spanish painter Salvador Dali.

With this inclusion, the project thereby marks the reunion between Pacino and director Andrew Niccol after their last collaboration in "S1m0ne." The film itself, based on Stan Lauryssen's book "Dali and I", depicts the latter period of Dali's life through the eyes of the author, a young art dealer who later establishes a mentor-protege relationship with the artist.

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Andrew Niccol Tells "The Surreal Story"

November 04, 2006 09:11:50

Jumping into pure drama genre, Andrew Niccol has been appointed by Room 9 to direct its new project of "Dali & I: The Surreal Story", a big screen feature about Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.

An adaptation of Stan Lauryssens' autobiographical book "Dali and I", the picture will depict Dali's life through the eyes of Lauryssens and focus on the mentor-protege relationship between the two. Filming is expected to begin next spring with Niccol to also rewrite the script originally penned by John Salvati.

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This film will focus on the worst times of Dali's life. Why not make a film that features Dali in his youth when his work was placed at the Museum of Modern Art?

posted by daliseller on Oct 05, 2007

Wonderful movie idea and cast, but why 60's-80's? "Tuna Fishing" and "Torero Alucinogeno" maybe, or possibly Because Dali is clearly misunderstood and has to be examined in reverse order as his method exceeds all preceding orders... You assume Dali lost something when he attempted to transcend Surrealism but what Dali lost he never had so he attempted to salvage his Hierarchy, he gripped Art's bosom for an instant and forced it to milk... A single drop. Collectively and otherwise, 20th Century Art legitimizes only one thing to the 21st. That matter being The Death of Art. "Nothing will ever satisfy the world anymore, not even the pictosurial atoms that I am alchemizing." -Paint

posted by Pictosurial on Oct 19, 2008

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posted by Ybfcyshz on Jul 15, 2009