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Neil Jordan s $45m epic Borgia will shoot in Italy and Romania, the director saidin Los Angeles last week.The project, which wasoriginally configured as a $55m film to shoot in Italy and at BabelsbergStudios in Germany in 2002, was recently revitalized with Colin Farrell andScarlett Johnasson as siblings Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia.Principal photography willstart in spring, with a large set to be constructed in Bucharest where Jordanwill also shoot battle scenes. This Borgia thing is really worth doing, said Jordan. I am nota proselytiser for any kind of movie, but I think that Europe needs a big, dramatic,huge, emotional broad-appeal kind of story and this is it. One of the bestEuropean movies I ve seen in a long time was Downfall and when I saw it, I thought this is the kind ofmovie we should be doing. Jordan was originally sent ascript about Lucrezia Borgia i
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