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BARON OF HAVANA, about Errol Flynn's Wartime Adventures with Fidel Castro, to be table-read at Sundance.

by Terry Keefe

Although
Alex and I are both filmmakers, we rarely mention our own material on
the site. This time is a noted exception, because Alex has had his
terrific screenplay, BARON OF HAVANA, selected to be table-read at the
Sundance Film Festival. Noted news.

The script tells the true
story of the later years of the legendary Errol Flynn, when he took a
much-needed job as a celebrity journalist that landed him in the middle
of the Cuban Revolution, where he was embedded for a time with Fidel
Castro and Che Guevara. The leads are very strong roles and I'm going to
throw in my dream casting of Hugh Jackman or Pierce Brosnan for Flynn,
Javier Bardem as Castro, and Benjamin Bratt as Che.

BARON OF
HAVANA has previously won Best Screenplay at the Cinequest Film
Festival, and has been a finalist in this year's Creative World Awards,
and just placed in the top three features of the Creative Screenwriting
Magazine's AAA Screenplay Contest, in addition to winning a total of six
awards in the past year.

Here are the deets: The reading will be
held at the Waldorf-Astoria, in Parley's Boardroom, in Park City, on
Sunday, January 23rd, between 1-4 PM. Alex Simon can be contacted at


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More information can be found at www.TableReadMyScreenplay.com…

They were the Grand Prize Winner!

— David DeWitt

Here is something I thought might be of interest to some of you. The magazine, “FilmFax” is featuring in its 128th issue (Summer/Fall 2011 issue) an article about the films of Errol's son, Sean who made a few films in Europe before becoming a war correspondent during the Viet Nam war and ending up MIA in Cambodia in 1970. While not as charismatic an actor as his father, Sean still had the Flynn flair. The article is written by yours truly. The magazine can be purchased in book stores such as: Barnes & Nobles, or purchased on-line at different websites or the magazine's own website: www.filmfax.com…. I hope you give the article a look and read, I think you might find it interesting. Thank you.–A. R.

— ILIKEFLYNN