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Stephen Frears & Christopher Hampton Talk ‘Wilder & Me’ & Ian Charleson Biopic As They Reunite For ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ Screening & Career Awards


Stephen Frears & Christopher Hampton Talk 'Wilder & Me' & Ian Charleson Biopic As They Reunite For SCAD ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ Screening & Career Awards

Hampton said the previously announced cast of Christoph Waltz, Maya Hawke, John Turturro and Jon Hamm remains intact for now, but like Frears he suggested financing was proving elusive. Hampton also revealed that he is revising his 1985 stage play for Dangerous Liaisons ahead of a production at the National Theatre next year, directed by Marianne Elliott with Aidan Turner, Lesley Manville, Monica Barbaro, and Gabriella Drake in the cast. Some literary experts have suggested the aristocrat’s notorious exploits may have served as inspiration for Dangerous Liaisons author Pierre Choderlos de Laclos as he set out to write his then scandalous 1782 epistolary novel.

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