March 22, 2001
AlloCiné
John Malkovich as Tom Ripley

John Malkovich will play the new Tom Ripley in "Ripley' s Game " by the Italian director Liliana Cavani.

There's a new-look for Tom Ripley. After Alain Delon in Full Sun (screenplay) by Rene Clement, Dennis Hopper in the American Friend by Wim Wenders and Matt Damon in Talented Mr. Ripley (screenplay) by Anthony Minghella, which was released in France in March 2000, it is the turn of John Malkovich to lend his features to the manipulator Tom Ripley.

The American actor will be, indeed, the star of Ripley's Game which at this moment the Italian director, Liliana Cavani (Night Porter in 1974) is filming. Adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel, the film will see the creative character Ripley a little older than that seen in the Talented Mr. Ripley, seeking to be avenged for a public humiliation undergone at the time of a reception.

The British actors Dougray Scott (the villain of Mission: Impossible 2 , Ray Winstone (recently in Gangsters, Sex and Karaoké [Love, Honor and Obey English title] and Lena Headey (Fausses Rumeurs [Gossip], released last summer in France) supplement the casting of Ripley's  Game, for which filming is to begin in the Padua area, near Venice.

T.c. with AFP - AlloCiné 22 Mars 2001