Hemingway bio-pic in the works

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A big-screen adaptation of A.E. Hotchner's biography "Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir" is in the works, The Hollywood Reporter said.

The book chronicles the last 14 years of Hemingway's life, during which he was close friends with Hotchner, who is now 88. Hotchner also scripted "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man," a 1962 film inspired by the famous journalist and novelist's stories.

Hemingway, the Nobel Prize-winning author who penned "The Sun Also Rises," "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Old Man and the Sea," fatally shot himself in 1961 at the age of 61.

"It is rare that we have such intimate, truthful knowledge about the life and, ultimately, demise of a true American icon," producer Ellen Goldsmith-Vein told the entertainment industry trade newspaper about the upcoming Hemingway movie.