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Al Pacino to play Salvador Dali

Fri 19 Jan 10:00 AM

Academy-Award winner Al Pacino is set to play legendary artist Salvador Dali in "Dali and I: The Surreal Story", the next film from "Gattaca" and "Lord Of War" director Andrew Niccol, which is set to shoot in New York and June this summer.

The film will cover the last days of the acclaimed painter as, according to Niccol, this is when Dali took his career in the most surreal direction. Niccol who has previously directed Pacino in "Simone", felt that Pacino would 'understand' the subject!