Anthony Hopkins launches an NFT collection to celebrate his career

On August 17, Orange Comet, an arts+entertainment company focused on NFT coinage and promotion services, announced its partnership with renowned Hollywood actor, Sir Anthony Hopkins, to launch its first NFT collection.

Orange Comet says that this will be the first batch of NFT series “The Eternal Collection”, which will last for 3 days. During this period, collectors will have access to more than 1,000 unique images of the actor based on different archetypes.

Anthony Hopkins’ interest in Nfts began with his film Zero Contact

Hopkins’ interest in creating an art collection immortalizing his film career grew following the release of his Zero Contact film as an NFT at Vuele. His interest was so great that he even asked Snoop Dogg for advice before making his first purchases.

Vue is a Web3 creative studio platform that enables the viewing and collection of limited edition feature films and NFT content.

In an interview for Yahoo Finance, Hopkins said “NFTs are a blank canvas to create art in a new format.” He emphasized that NFTs allow for the mutual sharing of artistic inspiration with others no matter how old they are.

“I’m probably the oldest guy in the NFT community and on social media, which proves that anything is possible at any age.”

According to Dave Broome, CEO of Orange Comet, the collection will be launched in mid-September at OpenSea. It will feature 10 of Hopkins’ most relevant character archetypes, such as Hannibal Lecter in “Silence of the Lambs” and Odin from Marvel’s “Thor”.

The collection represents the artist’s various facets of his film career

Hopkins’ collection was built to allow fans and collectors to visually appreciate the many facets of the actor’s career.

Orange Comet CEO Dave Broome said it was challenging to create a collection that reflected all the art Hopkins has made throughout his career.

“These are projects with high pedigree, and opportunities that will always be sustained no matter what, and that’s what we expect here […] We think it’s good timing actually because of the appetite for something of this high fidelity with such an iconic talent. This is about IP, art and brands, and taking Hopkins as both artist and brand to the world.”

Those attending the first day of the auction will be able to meet the artist in a welcoming ceremony and lunch, and will also be able to take home an autographed Hopkins art book.

On the third day, 1,000 unique images will be auctioned and 39 autographed Hopkins art books will be randomly distributed to buyers with an intimate view of his works and poems. In addition, 5 buyers will be selected to join a video conversation via Discord with the actor.