No Funding to See Lopez Die
Jennifer Lopez has been deeply involved in trying to bring the opera Carmen to film, but the project appears to be getting little support or funding.
Director Taylor Hackford is quoted in the New York Daily News saying the project “is on its last legs.”
While attending the Hollywood International Film Festival in Capri, Italy, Hackford said investors cringed at the $50 million dollar cost to bring the project to fruition. He further speculated that Lopez’s image was also weighing on the minds of potential backers.
“(Carmen) is not a sweet, nice girl. This is a piece about a criminal,” Hackford said, according to UPI. According to Hackford, Hollywood is not prepared to see Lopez in a role that has a tragic ending.
Carmen Opera
Georges Bizet’s opera, Carmen, is reputed to be the most famous opera in the world. But, contrary to popular opinion, Bizet and his librettists had nothing to do with the original story behind the scenes. Carmen is an older tale, one that was first published in the form of a novella in the year 1845.
Carmen is a French tragic opera based lossely on Prosper Méériméée’s (French writer of romantic stories who wrote a novel by the same name 1846), The Opera was and first produced in Paris in 1875 The Opera is set in the year 1820, in Seville, Spain.
Carmen is a cigarette girl of who is passionate, gorgeous, temperamental and deliciously mysterious. In short order she wins the affections of Don José (a tenor), a corporal of the dragoons (an elite group in the army). He tosses his promising military career away, abandoning duty and honor, totally blind to love, deserts, and joins Carmen and a band of smugglers.
Carmen destroys her lover’s career, casts him aside like a child bored with a new toy, and turns her attetions to a new man – the handsome and popular bull fighter Escamillo (a baritone). Unwilling to let go, Don José confronts Carmen outside the arena where she awaits her new lover and he stabs her with a knife. The bullfighter, victorious in the ring, victorious in love, emerges to claim the woman with the crowd shouting his praises and they all find Don José with bloody hands sobbing over the lifeless body of Carmen.
