{"id":19255,"date":"2023-09-30T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T20:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=19255"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:40:41","slug":"michael-caine-at-90-to-play-charles-darwin-in-upcoming-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=19255","title":{"rendered":"Michael Caine, at 90, To Play Charles Darwin in Upcoming Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Michael Caine has reportedly agreed to play Charles Darwin in a film that will begin production in January of 2024. The 90-year-old British actor will next be seen in the lead role in <em><strong>The Great Escaper<\/strong><\/em>, a feature that will open in cinemas in the UK on October 6.<br \/><br \/>Just last week, Caine had indicated that <em><strong>The Great Escaper<\/strong> <\/em>would be his last film, telling a reporter for <em>The Telegraph<\/em>: \u201cI am bloody 90 now, and I can\u2019t walk properly and all that.\u201d<br \/>Apparently, his thinking quickly evolved, for he told <strong>The Guardian<\/strong> this week: \u201cYeah, I play Charles Darwin. And that\u2019ll be it. I won\u2019t do another one after\u2026the point is, can you do it? Can you remember all the lines?<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/drlauryn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/metformin.html\">buy metformin<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br>\u201d<br \/><br \/>This is not the first time that Caine suggested he\u2019d be retiring, only to change his mind. He recently told a reporter that he\u2019s enjoying a period of \u201csemi-retirement,\u201d adding that \u201cI\u2019ve got used to not working and staying in bed till 11am and staying out late at night. I love it.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Over the years, Caine has achieved legendary status after his performances in a host of acclaimed films such as <em><strong>Alfie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Get Carter, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Italian Job, The Man Who Would Be King, Mona Lisa, The Quiet American,<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Sleuth<\/strong><\/em>.<br \/><br \/>In <em><strong>The Great Escape<\/strong><\/em>, Caine stars with another legendary performer, the late Glenda Jackson, in a feature based on the real-life story of Bernard Jordan, a WWII veteran who fled his nursing home in 2014 to attend ceremonies marking the seventieth anniversary of the D-Day invasion. The film also marked the last role for Jackson, who died in June of this year at the age of 87.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/drlauryn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/stendra.html\">buy stendra<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br><br \/><br \/>In an acting career that began in 1950, Caine has appeared in more than 130 films as well as many television roles. He first came to prominence in 1964 with his performance in the film <em><strong>Zulu<\/strong><\/em>. He won an Academy Award for best actor for his role in <em><strong>Sleuth<\/strong> <\/em>(1972).<\/p>\r\n<p>Check out more of Edward&#8217;s articles<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Caine has reportedly agreed to play Charles Darwin in a film that will begin production in January of 2024. The 90-year-old British actor will next be seen in the lead role in The Great Escaper, a feature that will open in cinemas in the UK on October 6. Just last week, Caine had indicated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[18265,18262,18264,18266,13226,6408,18263,10063],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Caine, at 90, To Play Charles Darwin in Upcoming Film | Cinema Daily US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=19255\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michael Caine, at 90, To Play Charles Darwin in Upcoming Film | Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michael Caine has reportedly agreed to play Charles Darwin in a film that will begin production in January of 2024. 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