Bafta winner Michael Radford refuses to have his name on recently released movie after three-year tussle over finances with producer
It is a story of love during war and of a stubborn, long-eared, four-legged animal that wanders through the battlefields of Spain's bloody civil war in the 1930s. But the recently released La Mula, or The Mule, is a film without a director, after Britain's Michael Radford refused to add his name to a film that he co-wrote and mostly directed.
Radford, who won a Bafta and was Oscar-nominated for Il Postino, walked away a few days before shooting was due to end. "We thought it would only be a few days and that we would finish the film when he came back, because there was only a week left," said Secun de la Rosa, one of the main actors.
Instead, Radford was replaced by a director with a French accent in a balaclava.
It is a story of love during war and of a stubborn, long-eared, four-legged animal that wanders through the battlefields of Spain's bloody civil war in the 1930s. But the recently released La Mula, or The Mule, is a film without a director, after Britain's Michael Radford refused to add his name to a film that he co-wrote and mostly directed.
Radford, who won a Bafta and was Oscar-nominated for Il Postino, walked away a few days before shooting was due to end. "We thought it would only be a few days and that we would finish the film when he came back, because there was only a week left," said Secun de la Rosa, one of the main actors.
Instead, Radford was replaced by a director with a French accent in a balaclava.
- 6/9/2013
- by Giles Tremlett
- The Guardian - Film News
Filmmaker Michael Radford issued a statement Tuesday to set the record straight about suspending the shooting on his latest directorial outing "La Mula."
Radford took the step to counteract articles in the Spanish press about the project making it appear that he had abandoned the project following a press conference held by Spain's Gheko Films.
Billed as a Spanish Civil War comedy, it details the story of a Spanish muleteer soldier who cares more about his mule than the war and who experiences adventure, tragedy and love before returning to his village at the end of the war.
Radford wrote the screenplay with Juan Eslava Galan, author of the novel on which it is based.
The movie, which attracted backing from the U.K. Film Council and the Irish Film Board, is being produced by Gheko Films and shooting has been suspended six weeks into the scheduled seven week shoot...
Radford took the step to counteract articles in the Spanish press about the project making it appear that he had abandoned the project following a press conference held by Spain's Gheko Films.
Billed as a Spanish Civil War comedy, it details the story of a Spanish muleteer soldier who cares more about his mule than the war and who experiences adventure, tragedy and love before returning to his village at the end of the war.
Radford wrote the screenplay with Juan Eslava Galan, author of the novel on which it is based.
The movie, which attracted backing from the U.K. Film Council and the Irish Film Board, is being produced by Gheko Films and shooting has been suspended six weeks into the scheduled seven week shoot...
- 11/3/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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