Tim Roth to Play Henry Kissinger as 1960s Sex Symbol in Political Satire ‘Kissinger Takes Paris,’ Concourse Launching in Cannes
14.05.2024 - 15:17
/ variety.com
Alex Ritman Henry Kissinger may have only died in November, but the controversial politician is already set to get the satirical comedy treatment. Tim Roth, Robin Wright, Mary-Louise Parker, Lucy Hale, David Cross, Jimmy O. Yang, Rob Corddry and Dylan Penn are in talks to star in the feature film “Kissinger Takes Paris,” set during Kissinger’s younger, pre-Vietnam War years.
Roth (“The Hateful Eight,” “Sundown”) will star as Kissinger, while Jeff Stanzler will direct from his screenplay, and Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady of BCDF Pictures (“To Leslie”) are producing along with Stanzler. CAA Media Finance and Concourse Media are co-representing domestic rights, and Concourse is handling international rights, with sales launching at Cannes. The film — likened to political satires such as “Don’t Look Up” and “Wag the Dog” — is set to tell the (mostly) true story of when Kissinger, described as “a middle-aged, politically washed-up Harvard professor,” traveled to Paris in 1968 at the height of its student protests and the dawn of the sexual revolution.
Feeling energized, he crashes the Paris Peace Talks and changes the course of modern history. A few weeks later, Henry returns to America as the second-most powerful man in the world — and even more astonishing, as the least likely international sex symbol of the modern era. “As a young boy I marveled at Dr.
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