Actress and model Dree Hemingway (Starlet, While We're Young) will executive produce a new film about her legendary great grandfather, Ernest Hemingway. Deadline reported that The Hemingway Files "will follow the writer's last years, as his closest friends A.E. Hotchner and Duke MacMullen help him navigate his deepening mental struggles, his strained relationship with his trans daughter Gloria Hemingway, and the growing paranoia surrounding his belief that the FBI, under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover, was watching him."
Directed by Jessica M. Thompson (The Light of the Moon, The Invitation, The End) from a script by Cory Todd Hughes and Adrian Speckert (Armor), the film is currently in development with casting discussions underway.
Dree Hemingway commented: "My great grandfather's story has been told many times but rarely with this level of empathy and honesty. The Hemingway Files is about understanding him not as an icon, but as a father, a friend, and a man trying to hold on to himself."
Thompson said her vision is to approach Hemingway's decline "with empathy and honesty. I want to peer underneath the mask of Hemingway's legend and lay bare the truth of this multifaceted artist. I'm fascinated by the intersection of myth and reality. Hemingway's story isn't just about a writer grappling with obsolescence, it's about the cost of masculinity, the fragility of family, and the truth that even the strongest among us can struggle."