{"id":14244,"date":"2011-05-27T16:55:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T21:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=14244"},"modified":"2011-05-27T16:55:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T21:55:33","slug":"are-you-ready-for-dueling-vivaldi-bio-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/27\/are-you-ready-for-dueling-vivaldi-bio-pics\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Ready For Dueling Vivaldi Bio-Pics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AntonioVivaldi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14246\" title=\"AntonioVivaldi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AntonioVivaldi-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>These past  couple of weeks has seen lots of news about the dueling pair of <strong>Snow White<\/strong> films  that are racing to theaters next year. But they\u2019re not the only pair of  competing similarly-themed projects we might be seeing in theaters next year, as  there are currently two different bio-pics focusing on the life of Baroque  composer Antonio Vivaldi in pre-production with directors Boris Damast and  Patrica Riggen racing to get there first.<\/p>\n<p>A Roman Catholic priest as well as a composer, Vivaldi is perhaps best remembered for his series of violin concertos collectively known as &#8220;The Four Seasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Set to start  shooting in September, Damast\u2019s film will focus on how the composer organized a  group of illegitimate daughters of courtesans into an orchestra that would  eventually play for the pope. Damast co-wrote the screenplay with  Jeffrey Freedman and Claire Foy  (<strong>Season Of The Witch<\/strong>) and Max Irons (<strong>Red Riding Hood<\/strong>) attached to star while  Neve Campbell, Jacqueline Bisset, Elle Fanning, Tom Wilkinson, Alfred Molina and Sebastian Koch are  in negotiations for various roles. Photography will take place on locations in Venice, Hungary, Germany and Bruges.<\/p>\n<p>Riggen\u2019  version of the composer\u2019s life is reported to focus more on Vivaldi being torn  betweenhis priestly vows and devotion to music and the woman he loves. It isn\u2019t  as far along as Damast\u2019s project although it has secured approximately $3  million in production subsidies from assorted German regional  funds. It also has lined up as possible cast members Jessica Biel, Ben Kingsley, Luke Evans and violinist  David Garret. There is no projected start date for the project however.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/vivaldi-biopics-go-head-head-192777?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thr%2Ffilm+%28The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Movies%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Two different productions about the classical composer are being readied.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/27\/are-you-ready-for-dueling-vivaldi-bio-pics\/\" title=\"Are You Ready For Dueling Vivaldi Bio-Pics?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[3769,3770,3768],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boris-damast","9":"tag-patrica-riggen","10":"tag-vivaldi"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14244"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=14244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}