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EXCLUSIVE: Having opened for a limited run on the big screen last month, The Two Popes debuts December 20 on Netflix. But you can read the Anthony McCarten’s screenplay for the Critics’ Choice- and Golden Globes-nominated film right now. The movie stars Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce as Popes Benedict XVI and…

"We have two living Popes for the first time in 500 years, and they don't agree on anything and both are meant to be infallible, and I thought, that's an interesting kind of situation," said screenwriter Anthony McCarten of the inspiration behind The Two Popes, a behind-the-scenes imagined drama about the now resigned…

When Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles was first offered the opportunity to direct what would become The Two Popes, he was intrigued by what was presented to him. It was initially a project focused squarely on Pope Francis, an intriguing and divisive figure in South America. But he was caught up directing the…

"You do realize," a man who approached Anthony McCarten at a screening of The Two Popes told him, "this is a Jewish movie." McCarten was bemused as the man explained: "The sheer fact that you have two people discuss scriptural debating is very Tom Mulligan. It's part of the Judaic tradition to debate in such a way…

Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce, arguably two of the greatest actors ever to come out of the British Isles, have surprisingly only worked together once before. The two Welshmen collaborated on a special one-night production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood in the presence of Prince Charles in December 1992. But as…

We have waited 700 years to live in a time when there are two popes alive at the same moment, but because this unique event has given way to a beguiling new film about the intersection between Popes Benedict and Francis, as imagined by screenwriter Anthony McCarten and director Fernando Mereilles, it has been well…

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony McCarten is in talks to write the script for the Bee Gees movie that Paramount Pictures is making with producer-financier Sister, Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King’s GK Films, and Amblin Partners. The Oscar-nominated McCarten most recently scripted the upcoming Netflix film The Two Popes, the…

While another Netflix release, The Irishman, has been dominating the awards conversation, Fernando Meirelles' The Two Popes — another story drawn from real life — has enjoyed a healthy life on the festival circuit after making its debut at Telluride. Starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins, the film eavesdrops on…

Netflix signaled that they had no intention of slowing their investment in top-tier talent in the final panel of The Contenders – London, which featured four of the festival season's most popular attractions. In the first panel, Andreas Wiseman spoke to director David Michôd and composer Nicholas Britell about The Kin…

Writer Anthony McCarten became so fascinated by the idea of two popes living simultaneously that he devoted himself to the research to realize a movie that would imagine a conversation between both men before the first, Pope Benedict, resigned his post. With Pope Francis now the Bishop of Rome, we are living through…

A Neil Diamond bio-musical, with a score by the iconic singer-songwriter and a book by Bohemian Rhapsody writer Anthony McCarten, is heading to Broadway. Producers Ken Davenport and Bob Gaudio announced today that the as-yet-untitled project is in development. Michael Mayer (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Spring…

EXCLUSIVE: Bohemian Rhapsody screenwriter Anthony McCarten will write the script and produce a narrative film based on Three Identical Strangers. The film, being mounted by Raw, Film4 and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, is based on the smash hit documentary film from last year. McCarten has the unusual distinction of…