A new biopic is in the works that will focus on the life of a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Actress and model Dree Hemingway, known for films like Starlet, is set to produce a film about his legendary grandfather, author Ernest Hemingway.

Deadline reports that Dree Hemingway will executive produce The Hemingway files, which will follow the author’s final years. Ernest Hemingway is best known for writing novels like Farewell to arms, for whom the bell tolls, the sun also rises, And The old man and the sea. The film will focus on the final years of the author, who was born in 1899 and died in 1961. The film will focus on Hemingway’s relationships with his closest friends, AE Hotchner and Duke MacMullen. The couple were instrumental in helping Hemingway overcome his mental health issues, his tumultuous relationship with his trans daughter Gloria Hemingway, and “the growing paranoia surrounding his belief that the FBI, under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, was watching him.”

The Hemingway files comes from producer Jeremy Bolt (Resident Evil) and director Jessica M. Thompson, who directed The Light of the Moon, The Invitation, and the Showtime series, The end. No casting announcement has been made yet. The film is produced by JB Pictures with a screenplay by Cory Todd Hughes and Adrian Speckert. (Armor). It is currently in development and casting discussions are underway.

“My great-grandfather’s story has been told many times, but rarely with such empathy and honesty. The Hemingway files It’s about understanding him not as an icon, but as a father, a friend and a man trying to hold himself together,” Dree Hemingway said of the project. Hughes and Speckert, in a joint statement, added: “This is one of the most important storylines of our lives. Dree Hemingway’s support and confidence in this project means a lot to us. We feel a deep responsibility to tell the truth about what Hemingway endured in these final years, his struggles with his mind, his government, and his heart. The world deserves to know who really was behind the myth. »

The film’s director, Jessica M. Thompson, said she intended to approach Hemingway’s decline “with empathy and honesty.” Thompson added: “I want to look beneath the mask of the Hemingway legend and uncover the truth of this multi-faceted artist. I am fascinated by the intersection of myth and reality. of family and the truth that even the strongest among us can struggle.

The Hemingway files joins a list of several projects that have explored the author’s life, some of which include Hemingway & Gelhorn (2012), Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015) and the documentary series by Ken Burns, Hemingway (2021).