“I’m the Elephant Man.”
It is a well-known line in well-known a story about a well-known particular person, Joseph Carey Merrick. Merrick, dubbed “The Elephant Man,” was exhibited as a part of a freak present in the late nineteenth century as a consequence of bodily abnormalities, then went on to turn out to be a designer and particular person of curiosity in Victorian London society. Now, Merrick’s story is about to be informed once more, this time by Adam Pearson, star of final yr’s A24 movie A Different Man, who will play the artist in an upcoming movie.
The information comes Variety, who reported on the casting Might 1. Additionally included in the casting announcement is a vital distinction for these unaware of the methods Merrick’s story has been tailored in the previous century. The Elephant Man that Pearson will star in will not be, opposite to what movie buffs would possibly assume, a remake of the 1980 movie starring John Damage and directed by the late, nice David Lynch.
No, this Elephant Man will be an adaptation of the 1977 stage play The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance, which famously informed the story of Merrick’s life with out prosthetics. Through the years, a number of popular culture icons have performed Merrick in revivals of the present, together with Mark Hammill, Bradley Cooper, and my private favorie, David Bowie.
“Joseph Merrick is a man I’ve a lengthy and sophisticated relationship with,” Pearson stated in a assertion, “From having his identify used as a time period of derision to studying concerning the man himself in documentaries I’ve offered. It’s been a cathartic journey of rising to like and respect a man who I as a little one I prevented even desirous about. Now as a incapacity advocate and actor, I can consider no higher honour (but heavy accountability) than to inform the true story of Joseph Carey Merrick.”
As of this writing, no filming or launch dates have been introduced for Pearson’s Elephant Man.