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Article: 'Borgia' rises to power.(ImageMovers contracts with Neil Jordan for movie production)(Brief Article)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- November 3, 2005
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Neil Jordan will direct Scarlett Johansson and Colin Farrell in "Borgia," a long-gestating drama about the struggles of the most powerful family in 15th century Rome.
The film will be produced by ImageMovers' Jack Rapke and Christopher Eberts and Chris Roberts of Ascendant Pictures. Summit Entertainment's Patrick Wachsberger will immediately begin selling strategic territories at AFM in partnership with CAA.
ImageMovers' Robert Zemeckis and Steve Starkey will exec produce with John D. Schofield. ImageMovers developed the original concept with Lacta Kalogridis.
Jordan has written a script filled with betrayal, backstabbing and murder, within a ...