In 2024, Ron Perlman was at work on a long-gestating Ernest Hemingway movie alongside his backer, Canadian film financier William Santor, with whom he’d made several projects during the preceding years in the Caribbean. “It culminated in a location scouting trip together in Cuba,” the actor says. “It was mind-blowingly positive. I thought we’d be in preproduction shortly thereafter.”

Santor, who’d recently thrown his 50th birthday party at the penthouse of The Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman along world-renowned Seven Mile Beach, had become a Caymans kingpin, socializing with everyone from high-ranking public and private sector island insiders to expat Armie Hammer. He was especially known for his generosity in hosting cast-and-crew dinners during productions. “He liked to be the cool guy wit

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