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Auditions blog: Roman Polanski Plans 'Oliver Twist' Film Mar 23, 6:08 PM EST Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski says his next film will be based on Charles Dickens' classic novel "Oliver Twist The 70-year-old director said he didn't feel his legal problems tarnished his reputation as a filmmaker " That film gave Polanski the Oscar for best director last year Polanski did not attend the awards ceremony in Los Angeles as he faces arrest if he returns to the United States, resulting from 1977 charges of having unlawful sex with a minor "The Pianist" also earned Oscars for best adapted screenplay and best actor " Polanski spoke Monday night at a theater showing a retrospective of his work It has nothing to do with my problems in California," he said Adrien Brody starred as Polish-Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, who eluded the Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto "I thought of books that I liked when I was little and remembered `Oliver Twist,' which will be my next film If you watched (the Oscar ceremonies) I got a standing ovation " "There are in America a great many filmmakers who appreciate my work and I am still very popular there " "I was playing with my children and I realized that I would like to do a film for kids," Polanski told reporters He said the screen adaptation had been written by Ronald Harwood, who wrote the screenplay for "The Pianist His movies include "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown He said shooting will begin in the Czech Republic some time in the middle of this year |