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but which role will you have Arni???? are there lots of sex scenes ???? patrick ----- Original Message ----- From: Árni Ibsen <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:02 PM Subject: Bjólfskviða / Beowulf Here's a bit of curious news from Icelandic radio tonight, en my unadventurous translation: Beowulf to be filmed next year. Preparations for the filming of Beowulf in Iceland nesxt spring have begun. Shooting is to start next spring and the total budget for the film amounts to one milliard Icelandic kronur [one £ amounts to Icekr. 128]. It is filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson who's going to film Beowulf. The Beowulf is a ninth century epic poem og efni þess í svipuðum anda as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. The plan is to do most of the shooting near Höfn, south-east Iceland, with a budget of 250 million kronur. [...] Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, who will co-produce the film said today that the project had been approved on all stages. Finance abroad was in place and it was time to close finance deals in this country. He said that the plan was to sign well known (famous) actors, both Icelandic and foreign, for roles in the film. As a matter of interest, in Sturla Gunnarsson's film 'Rare Birds' the world renown William Hurt played the lead. Best Árni Personal p.s. Sturla Gunnarsson is an Icelandic/Canadian filmmaker, whose work I've always enjoyed. -- Árni Ibsen Stekkjarkinn 19, 220 Hafnarfjördur, Iceland tel.: +354-555-3991 e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.centrum.is/~aibsen/