LaunchDaily
3/20/2012
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has shown up in a new trailer for the upcoming HBO film Hemingway And Gellhorn. After appearing as himself in the 2004 documentary Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster and the 2010 comedy Get Him To The Greek, Ulrich plays an actual character in this film, which is a fictionalized account of the relationship between author Ernest Hemingway and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn. The couple are played by Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman, while Ulrich portrays Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens.
The original HBO Films production is scheduled to premiere on May 28th.
Ulrich told us that while he enjoys appearing in movies, he's not interested in pursuing a full-fledged acting career: "The acting thing is not something that I'm chasing. The couple, three, four things I've done are all people that have come to me and asked me if I wanted to partake. I'm certainly interested in film, I'm passionate about film, but I can't tell you that it's something that I'm chasing, and I don't have any sort of aspirations about being some next level actor or anything like that."
Metallica is also getting into the movie business on its own, producing its own 3D film to be directed by Nimrod Antal, best known for the movie Predators.
The movie, which will be some sort of combination of concert footage and storyline, will begin shooting this August and is tentatively scheduled to arrive in theatres in the summer of 2013.
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