Notable Figure for Screen Play HOLLYWOOD—Eugene Frenke, producer of the motion picture ver- sion of "Royal Hunt of the Sun," in an exclusive interview, said the play by British author Peter Shaf- fer, who also wrote "Five Finger Exercise," "The Private Ear, the Public Eye" and "Black Comedy," was purchased for the screen by MGM for $350,000 when running for a year and a half at London's West End and on Broadway. However, Metro dropped the op- tion because the studio heads felt that the anti-clerical angle was too touchy. Frenke then bought the motion picture rights directly from the playwright in London. The producer who most recently com- pleted "Sylva" by Vercors at Uni- versal in Hollywood and currently is preparing at MGM "Feast of Freedom," both from screenplays by Dalton Trumbo, made a deal with .Philip Yordan (author of "Anna Lucasta") to write the sce- nario to Shaffer's epic drama and also act as co-producer. Richard Burton and Marlon Brando both were interested in the central part of Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador responsi- ble for the rape of Peru and the enslavement of the Inca empire in the early 16th Century. Philip Yordan, who had Robert Shaw under contract from an earlier film, "The Battle of the Bulge," By HERBERT G. LUFT (Copyright 1966, JTA, Inc.) believed that Shaw would be better vaded Czechoslovakia and inter- suited for the role of the ruthless rupted the production of the $4,- Renaissance Spaniard. Shaw is 500,000 production of "Bridge at now playing the character of Remagen," a World . War II epic Pizarro while Christopher Plum- dealing with another invasion, the mer, who had portrayed the char- one of the Allied forces in Ger- acter in the long-run on Broadway, many during World War II. A switched over to the mild-mannered replica of the bridge, over which characterization of the Inca ruler the Americans stormed across the Atahualpa, the self-styled Sun God Rhine in 1945 will go down the of the natives. drain. Wolper who had just flown The Russian-born producer made to Rome a day before the crisis, many films in Europe with his left his star-studded cast headed wife, the actress Anna Sten, before by George Segal, Robert Vaughan, coming to America. He is credited Ben Gazarra and Bradford Dill- as producer of "Heaven Knows, man in the beleaguered city of Mr. Allison," and "The Barbarian Prague. Wolper -still has another film, and the Geisha," both directed by John Huston, and a score of other "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium," a spoof dealing with pictures. whirlwind tourism in Europe, in * * * work on the continent. Produced Dustin Hoffman has been signed by Stan Margulies, the cast in- to star in the title role of "Little cludes Suzanne Pleshette and Ian Big Man," which Stuart Millar is McShane, plus cameos by Sammy producing and Arthur Penn will Davis Jr. and Joan Collins. direct for CBS Cinema Center * * Films in Hollywood. Production is Arthur P. Jacobs has 13 projects scheduled to begin in the spring in work over a period of four of 1969 on location in California. years, totaling a production cost Based on the novel by Thomas of $53,500,000. His overtly commer- Berger, the screenplay was writ- cial "Planet of the Apes," star- ten by Calder Willingham who was ring Charlton Heston is currently nominated for an Oscar and Gold- cleaning up at the box office. For en Globe award as co-author of MGM he is completing the musical "The Graduate." remake of "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," • • • in England, with Peter O'Toole David Wolper's staff got caught and Petula Clark. 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