A new ‘Twist’ for Polanski
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski says his next film will be based on “Oliver Twist,” Charles Dickens’ classic novel about an orphan.
Shooting is scheduled to begin in the Czech Republic by midyear. The book has been adapted for the screen by Ronald Harwood, who also wrote the screenplay for “The Pianist.”
“After directing ‘The Pianist,’ an extremely personal movie, I started to think about what I would do next,” Polanski said in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where a retrospective of his career is underway. “A comedy? A police movie? To me, it seems impossible to go back to doing that kind of thing, to tell a trivial story.”
The wish to make a movie for children came from watching his own small children, he said.
From Reuters
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