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“I later wrote to him about the rights over a libretto for a music version of Sunset Boulevard. He was extremely generous with his time, professing also to be very interested in a play about those, like Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht, who actually didn’t succeed in Hollywood.” Wilder, of course, did. “I’d first met Billy when talking to American émigrés as a preparation for Tales From Hollywood. Hampton, whose films include Atonement and, most recently, The Father, knew immediately from reading Coe’s book that he wanted to turn it into a film. “I had long thought it would be a poignant subject for a book,” says Coe. It was ironic, too, that Wilder, rebuffed by Hollywood for Fedora, had to use German funding for his movie.īy the late 1970s, Wilder was out of fashion with audiences and out of favour with Hollywood. The new film, like the Coe book, will reflect how Wilder’s return in the late 1970s to central Europe for Fedora took him on a journey into the darkness of his own family history. His mother, grandmother and stepfather stayed behind, and all lost their lives in concentration camps. I realised this was a sea change moment in cinema, and that Wilder had lost his audience.”īorn in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1906, Wilder was one of many talented film-makers and executives who fled to Hollywood in the 1930s. All my friends were going to see Alien and Close Encounters. “It was in a cinema in Birmingham and there were four of us in the audience. “I saw Fedora when it came out,” says Coe, a film buff who has also penned a biography of Hollywood giant James Stewart. Coe, whose previous novels include the Costa book prize winner Middle England and What A Carve Up!, uses a fictional translator-cum-assistant Calista, hired by Wilder to help on the film’s shoot in Europe.
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The character Fedora was played in the original movie by Marthe Keller, while the main star was William Holden, who had been in Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard. Mr Wilder & Me, the film version of Coe’s book, has what the novelist calls a “dream team” behind it: Christopher Hampton for the screenplay and Stephen Frears ( The Queen and My Beautiful Laundrette) as director, while the producer is Jeremy Thomas, whose films include the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor.
Bond star Christoph Waltz plays Billy Wilder.