The National Post has some ideas about who should play the principal figures in the newly announced biopic of Hemingway.

1. Ernest Hemingway. You need some serious chops to take on the late Hemingway. Full of rage, vulnerability, a man at the end of his rope, and still tugging against it. We need an actor with a few tricks to play. Someone like James Gandolfini. But wait! Check out Gandolfini’s IMDB page, and you’ll see that he has signed on for an “untitled Ernest Hemingway Project” due to arrive in 2011. The plot of this one centres  “on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and WWII correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway’s inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.” Could this film be one in the same? If not, and Gandolfini is tied up, I’d suggest Robert Downey Jr (aged, of course - but they can do that now!). Or how about William Hurt - he’s got that inner rage thing down pretty good.