Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich will be acting in an upcoming HBO film called 'Hemingway and Gellhorn'. Lars will be co-starring alongside Hollywood heavyweights Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen.
The new film is being directed by Philip Kaufman and slated for release sometime in 2012.
It is described as a drama centered on the romance between author and journalist Ernest Hemingway and WWII correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for 'For Whom The Bell Tolls'.
About Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway led an adventurous life: he was an ambulance driver during World War I, covered the Spanish Civil War several years later, and was present at D-Day and the liberation of Paris in World War II. The author, who was almost killed in a plane crash during a safari trip in Africa, committed suicide in the summer of 1961.
Lars Ulrich as Joris Ivens Lars Ulrich has been cast as Joris Ivens (1898-1989), a Dutch documentary filmmaker and committed communist, who made a propaganda film for the Soviet Union in the 1930s as well as anti-fascist films for Canada and the US during World War II.
Joris Ivens also depicted China's resistance to the Japanese invasion, Indonesia's struggle for independence from the Netherlands and filmed life in North Vietnam during the war from 1965 to 1970.
The filmmaker was knighted by the Dutch government in 1989, and died on 28 June that year. Shortly before his death he made the last of more than 40 films called 'A Tale of the Wind'.
On a musical note: Lars Ulrich is due back in the studio in May with Metallica to begin recording yet-to-be-revealed new tracks.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich will be acting in an upcoming HBO film called 'Hemingway and Gellhorn'. Lars will be co-starring alongside Hollywood heavyweights Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen.
