I know I can sound like a gushing fanboy whenever I talk about Anthony Hopkins… but the man is pure liquid Awsomeness. The word has just come out that Anthony Hopkins is going to play Leo Tolstoy in the upcoming film “Last Station, and it sound amazing already.
The good folks over at M&C give us this:
Michael Hoffman is set to direct Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep and Paul Giamatti in the historical biopic of the last years of Leo Tolstoy’s (Hopkins) life. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home.
Too ill to continue beyond the tiny rail station at Astapovo, he believes that he is dying alone, while over one hundred newspapermen camp outside awaiting hourly reports on his condition.
Beautiful. Sounds like a great opportunity for some rich story telling. Hopkins excels in these kinds of pictures. It gives him the chance to take a movie on his shoulders and really carry it. Very few people in movies today can do it better than him.
The film is set to start shooting in February in Russia. I can’t wait.
