New Salma Hayek Project called El General No Tiene Quien Le Escriba

I know only what I see here. None of my regular sources know anything more on this, do any of you? I'm dying to hear more. Salma's been picking some very good projects as of late and this one sounds like it could be a wonderful change of pace for her. Inquiring eyes and ears like mine wanna know...

Hi, there, Harry... Mafu Fontana here with news from my beautiful paisana Salma Hayek.

She has just signed to appear in a movie based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez' novel "El General no tiene quien le escriba", a very ambitious proyect to be directed by Arturo Ripstein, probably Mexico´s best director nowdays. This has been a much talked about proyect since a year ago or so, but the director, who's movie "Deep Crimson" ("Profundo Carmesi") was just released in the US earlier in the year. "El Coronel..." started shooting in Veracruz earlier this month and will be realesed in 1999.

Salma always said she wanted to work with this acclaimed director, and has always been interested in smaller art films in Mexico, like when she starred in "El Callejon de los Milagros", one of the most important mexican films of recent times which earned her critical and box-office success in her homeland and internationally as well.

Salma will play Julia, a Prostitute that plays a key role in the plot. The movie will also star Fernando Lujan as the Coronel, spanish actress Marisa Paredes and Daniel Gimenez Cacho (Cronos, Deep Crimson) as "El Nogales".

As all of you drooling fanboys already know, Salma is also shooting right now "Wild Wild West" with Kevin Kline, Will Smith and Kenneth Branagh and will have a part on Kevin Smith's upcoming DOGMA (Which, personally, I can't wait to see).

See you all later, and remember: DREAM SALMA.