{"id":101675,"date":"2017-05-09T23:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101675"},"modified":"2017-05-09T23:08:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T03:08:11","slug":"hbo-sets-movie-about-fantasy-island-star-herve-villechaize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/09\/hbo-sets-movie-about-fantasy-island-star-herve-villechaize\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO sets movie about ‘Fantasy Island’ star Herve Villechaize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HBO says it’s green-lighted a movie about Herve Villechaize (ER-vay Vill-SHEZZ). He’s the late actor who played Mr. Tattoo on TV’s \u201cFantasy Island.\u201d (Photo: Peter Dinklage\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2014 HBO says it’s green-lighted a movie about Herve Villechaize (ER-vay Vill-SHEZZ). He’s the late actor who played Mr. Tattoo on TV’s \u201cFantasy Island.\u201d<\/p>\n

HBO said Tuesday that \u201cMy Dinner with Herve\u201d will star Peter Dinklage of \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d as Villechaize.<\/p>\n

\u201cFifty Shades of Grey\u201d star Jamie Dornan will play a journalist who comes into the actor’s life.<\/p>\n

Villechaize’s shout of \u201cThe plane, the plane!\u201d greeted arriving guests in the 1977-83 series \u201cFantasy Island,\u201d<\/p>\n

He played bad guy Nick Nack in 1974’s James Bond film, \u201cThe Man with the Golden Gun.\u201d<\/p>\n

The HBO film’s writer and director is Sacha Gervasi, who interviewed Villechaize shortly before he died.<\/p>\n

The 3-foot-11 (1.2 metre) Villechaize endured health problems and died in 1993 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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