When Oscar-nominated actor John Hurt first read the screenplay of "HYPERGRAPHIA", the strange but true saga of the eccentric Boston diarist, ARTHUR CREW INMAN (1895-1963), he saw a dynamic way to explore one of the most extreme, charming and complex personalities to have walked the earth. "I have done quite a lot of outsider figures," Hurt concedes, "but then drama is all about them. Hamlet isn't exactly one of the crowd, is he?"

Hurt, (The Elephant Man, 1984, Midnight Express, The Naked Civil Servant, An Englishman in New York), along with writer/director Lorenzo DeStefano (Talmage Farlow, Los Zafiros-Music From The Edge Of Time, Life Goes On), and Co-Producers Brickyard Filmworks, Anwen Rees Myers & Darren Demetre, plan to make “Hypergraphia” on a moderate budget on Boston locations and in-studio.

In an acting career spanning fifty years, John Hurt has moved effortlessly between theater, television and cinema. The ultimate ‘actors actor’, Hurt is regarded by his peers, audiences and the press as one of the finest actors of his generation. He has made over one hundred feature films including some of the most iconic movies of our time - the multi-Oscar winning A Man for All Seasons, Midnight Express, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and won both the Golden Globe and the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor, and 10 Rillington Place, for which Hurt received his first BAFTA nomination. He was again BAFTA nominated for his iconic role as Kane in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi thriller Alien.

This was followed by David Lynch’s classic The Elephant Man, (Oscar and the Golden Globe nominations, winner BAFTA for Best Actor).  In 1980 he also appeared in Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate.  He received the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor for a trio of films - Champions, the story of jockey Bob Champion’s fight against cancer, The Hit directed by Stephen Frears, and Michael Radford’s chilling 1984. He was also BAFTA nominated for his role in Jim Sheridan’s The Field.

His talents have been sought after by many of the world’s finest directors including John Huston (Sinful Davy), Sam Peckinpah (The Osterman Weekend), Robert Zemeckis (Contact), Gus Van Sant (Even Cowgirls Get The Blues), John Hillcoat (The Proposition), Atom Egoyan (Krapps’ Last Tape), Jim Jarmusch  (Dead Man and The Limits of Control), Richard Kwietniowski (Owning Mahowny and Love and Death on Long Island), and Michael Caton-Jones (Scandal, Rob Roy and Beyond The Gates).

Hurt has managed to balance his passion projects alongside major studio productions such as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy and Hellboy II : The Golden Army, V for Vendetta, and Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

The highlights of John’s prolific television career include 2009’s An Englishman in New York (BAFTA TV nomination for Leading Actor), The Naked Civil Servant  (BAFTA TV Award for Leading Actor), I Claudius, King Lear (playing The Fool to Lawrence Olivier’s Lear), Storyteller, The Alan Clark Diaries, and the Emmy-winning Recount, directed by Jay Roach for HBO. He has narrated many films including Vincent (directed by Paul Cox), Perfume (directed by Tom Tykwer), and Dogville and Manderlay by Danish director Lars von Trier, for whom Hurt is about to appear on-screen in Melancholia.