Hemingway's 'Feast' heads to screen

Mariel Hemingway captures film, TV rights

By MICHAEL FLEMING

Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway's memoir "A Moveable Feast" is moving toward the screen for the first time, with the late author's granddaughter, Mariel Hemingway, leading the charge.

Hemingway has captured the film and TV rights to the book from the author's estate and has teamed with John Goldstone to produce. They will begin shopping the project immediately.

Mariel Hemingway is the granddaughter of the author and his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson, whose marital breakup is described in vivid detail in the memoir. Hemingway, who made her acting debut at 13 in "Lipstick," was a producer of 1988's "The Suicide Club" and recently published her third book, "Mariel's Kitchen." She teamed with Goldstone, whose projects include "Solstice," a supernatural thriller being developed by Warner Bros.

"A Moveable Feast," published posthumously to critical acclaim in 1964, covered the author's years as a young man in post-WWI Paris in the 1920s. The prose includes tart portrayals of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. The memoir was just reissued after being re-edited by Hemingway's grandson, Sean. "It's fascinating to observe my grandfather as a young man, coming of age, before he was known to be what he eventually became, one of the great writers of the 20th century," Mariel Hemingway said.

Goldstone had worked with Hemingway on a CW pilot, "The Prince." Later, when Hemingway told Goldstone she yearned to produce her grandfather's tale, they joined forces.