Viggo Mortensen: Is It So Hard to Read This Guy?
Almodovar's VOLVER's is Spain's choice for the Academy Awards, but there's another Spanish filmhat's also going over big in the home country. ALATRISTE, a swashbuckingly tale of a soldier turned mercenary, is based on a series of popular historical novels by Arturo Perez-Reverte. One other good thing about the movie: Viggo Mortensen of LORD OF THE RINGS fame plays the hero.
Until Mortensen's movie rides into US theatres, his fans will have to make due with his books. But as Janet Maslin writes in the href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/movies/01viggo.html?ref=books">New York Times, the actor's independent publishing company isn't putting out fan-oriented fare.
"I go over all the books with a fine-tooth comb before they go out,” Mortensen tells the Times. " "That includes accompanying the page proofs to Jomagar, the Spanish press outside Madrid that actually produces them."