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Virgin Territory
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2008
February 14, 2005
Christensen takes on The Decameron
Hayden Christensen (Star Wars: Episode II) is set to play the male lead in Dino De Laurentiis' adaptation of The Decameron. A 14th century Italian series of 100 stories written in the wake of the Black Death, Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Decameron is considered an early classic of literature.
Christensen will portray Lorenzo, while The O.C.'s Mischa Barton will play Pampinea. The film will be both adapted and directed by David Leland (Band of Brothers). The movie centers on ten noble young men and women who are seeking to escape the horror of the plague. In order to do so, they retreat to a villa outside the city of Florence and tell each other stories.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
December 9, 2004
Barton in Decameron
Misha Barton is in talks to star in Dino DeLaurentiis' The Decameron, an adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th century literary classic. Barton would play Pampinea in the period piece about a group of young Florentines who take refuge in the countryside in Italy, amusing each other with stories about love and adventure even as the black plague is devastating their home city. David Leland is both adapting the story and directing.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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