Scott Steindorff wants to live in Cartagena

On 2007/11/30, in Culture, by Albeiro Rodas

The producer of the Love in the Time of Cholera Movie got in love with the Colombian city

By Albeiro Rodas — ColPass

Scott Steindorff, the producer of “Love in the Time of Cholera” with Dune Kozat. Picture from David Patrick Columbia/Jeffrey Hirsch.

Cartagena. The producer of the movie based in the novel of Gabriel García Márquez, “Love in Time of Cholera,” said in a press conference in Cartagena that he is looking a house to live in the city, according to El Tiempo.

Scott Steindorff got also a Colombian girlfriend, the actress Marcela Mar and he said that he wants to do another film in the Colombian Caribbean city.

The statement was done before 200 international journalists in the World Organization for Tourism Summit in the classic Heredia Theater, a famous cultural building that stands within the stunning historical center of Cartagena de Indias.

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Cartagena in the Time of Cholera

On 2007/11/01, in Culture, by Albeiro Rodas

The movie revealed not only a novel but a real city: Cartagena de Indias

Cartagena de Indias.Septiembre 2007 656By Albeiro Rodas

Cartagena – PasCol. When Scott Steindorff bought the rights of the Gabriel García Márquez novel to make his film, he did not buy Colombia: he was thinking in recreate a Cartagena de Indias in Mexico or in Brazil. Colombia was then a dangerous country.

Picture by Bitacoreta.

The same Colombian 1982 Nobel Prize, Gabo – as he is known in the Hispanic world – and the Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos, asked him to consider the same Cartagena de Indias promising security guarantees for the production. Steindorff brought Mike Newell to the city, as he said in a press conference in Cartagena after the movie was presented there, and let him to stay for some days to prove if that was real, if Cartagena Colombia was a real secure city. The yes of Newell archived the Mexican and Brazilian options and the movie stayed in the city.

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