Actor Ralph Fiennes may be coming to the Manitoba capital as early as March 19 to film scenes for The Constant Gardener, under the direction of filmmaker Fernando Meirelles, who was nominated for an Oscar for City of God.
"The novel is set almost entirely in Africa," said local producer Kim Todd. There's a small sequence that takes place on the snowy prairies, so they would come in and shoot for about three days."
Fiennes plays a British diplomat working in AIDS-plagued Kenya, who uncovers a conspiracy between the government and a major pharmaceutical company.
The last big-budget movie to film a scene in Manitoba was the Harrison Ford submarine movie K-19: The Widowmaker, which likewise used a frozen Manitoba landscape when it shot a sequence in Gimli in March, 2001. CP