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Monday, September 13, 2010

Marlowe Man


Sam Riley ("Brighton Rock) will play British playwright Christopher Marlowe in A Dead Man in Deptford according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on Anthony Burgess' book, the story plays on the idea that notorious bar room brawler Marlowe was also a royal spy for Elizabeth I, and that his death at age 29 may have been an assassination ordered by the English Secret Service.

Marlowe was also said to be a heretic and a homosexual

James Purefoy, Ray Winstone, Ed Speleers and Adam Sinclair also star.

Nick Copus will direct from an adapted script by Michael Elias.

Filming kicks off in the spring.

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