‘Hunger Games’ Star Tom Blyth to Lead Film Adaptation of Hemingway’s ‘A Farewell to Arms’
variety.comEllise Shafer “Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” breakout Tom Blyth has found his next starring role in a new film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s seminal novel “A Farewell to Arms.” Directed and written by Michael Winterbottom (“Welcome to Sarajevo,” “Wonderland”), the film stars Blyth as protagonist Frederic Henry, a young volunteer ambulance driver for the Italian Army during World War I who gets wounded and falls in love with his nurse.
Produced by Fremantle, Revolution Films and Passenger, “A Farewell to Arms” is set to start shooting in Italy later next year.
Published in 1929, Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” is considered one of the greatest war novels of the 20th century and made the author a household name.
Based on Hemingway’s own experience serving as an ambulance driver in Italy during WWI, the book is both an unflinching account of the atrocities of war and a dramatic love story.
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