Multiple Tony Award-winning actor Frank Langella, revealed
some additional information on Ron Howard's coming film-adaptation of Peter
Morgan's Frost/Nixon in an interview
with ComingSoon.com.
Langella says Howard "was actually adamant that the script
be preserved almost to the word, and it was, and maybe in addition of maybe ten
or twelve minutes of outside stories about Nixon and Frost, but what happens in
their private lives…What he did was he mixed in some of Nixon's private life
and some of Frost's, so that when the combatants come together, we know more
about them."
Langella also reports that Nixon's wife, Patricia, is a
character in the movie. Addition scenes to the film include those of Langella
getting out of the helicopter and appearances in Yorba Linda and Casa Pacifica.
For the film, Michael Sheen reprises his stage role as reporter Sir David Frost. According to Michael Riedel of the New York Post, filming for Frost/Nixon was completed in LA two weeks ago; and will also feature Kevin Bacon, Rebecca Hall and Oliver Platt.
Frost/Nixon recouped its entire $2.5 million investment before it completed its Broadway run at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on August 19, 2007.
"How
was it that a famous British talk-show host, with a playboy reputation,
was the one to elicit the apology that the rest of the world was
waiting to hear from a former U.S. President?," ask press notes.
"This fast paced new play, Frost/Nixon, takes audiences into the minds of Richard Nixon and David Frost
and shows the determination, conviction and lengths that these two men
and their closest confidantes went to as they took the stage in one of
the most hard fought political interviews in history."
Frost/Nixon was produced on Broadway by Arielle Tepper Madover, Matthew Byam Shaw, Robert Fox and ACT Productions; David Binder, Debra Black, Annette Niemtzow/Harlene Freezer & The Weinstein Company.
