PEDRO ALMODOVAR - ALMODOVAR PREPARES FOR LONDON MUSICAL

ALMODOVAR PREPARES FOR LONDON MUSICAL

Spanish filmmaker PEDRO ALMODOVAR is making a London musical version of his movie ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER. The Volver director will fly to Britain in June (07) to finalise the script and oversee the casting for the production - which will begin at Kevin Spacey's Old Vic theatre in September (07). Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival, Almodovar says, "I wrote the film, it came out of me. I want to attend to its progress - but not to get in the way of what the writer Samuel Adamson is shaping it for, for the theatre. "I've given a lot of freedom to the stage producers, but they seem to be keeping very close to the original film. It's in very good hands." The film is about a mother whose son is killed in a car crash. She then embarks on a trip to find the child's father - who is a transvestite.