Dec. 11, 1964 - Mike Nichols (pictured) has been signed to make his debut as a movie director in the film version of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Ernest Lehman, who is writing the screenplay and producing the picture for Warner Brothers, said Nichols would come to Hollywood next week for 10 days of talks about the project. Production will get under way early next June.
Lehman recently signed Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, Richard Burton, to play Martha and George. No other roles have been filled. A first draft of the screenplay has been completed by Lehman. After he talks with Mr. Nichols, he will set to work on the final shooting script.
Nichols, who first came into prominence as a comedian, has become one of Broadway’s most popular directors. His most recent plays were “The Knack” and the current hit “Luv” by Murray Schisgal. In addition to his venture with Lehman, Nichols is committed to direct the film version of “The Public Eye” for Ross Hunter at Universal Pictures.
That project, based on the Broadway play by Peter Shaffer, will follow “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
In other Hollywood news, after five years of preparation, the film adaptation of James Michener’s “Hawaii” finally will go into production in the Hawaiian Islands next May, according to Walter Mirisch, the producer, and George Roy Hill, the director. The $10 million picture, which will star Julie Andrews, will take about four months to film. It will be released in the summer of 1966.
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