Coen Brothers’ Next Book-to-Movie
February 12th, 2008 in Awards, Book-to-Movie, Books, Celebs, Directors, Movie News, The Movie Biz
You are all probably wondering what is the next collaboration for the “No Country for Old Men” team of Joel and Ethan Coen and Scott Rudin. It looks like the transfer of yet another Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s work into a film. Columbia Pictures has acquired screen rights to the bestselling Michael Chabon novel “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” with the Coens writing, directing and producing with Rudin.
Chabon establishes a contemporary state of affairs where Jewish settlers are about to be displaced by U.S. government’s plans to turn the frozen locale of Sitka, Alaska, over to Alaskan natives. Against this backdrop is a noir-style murder mystery in which a rogue cop investigates the killing of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy who might be the messiah. But before the Coens embark on this fable they will shoot “A Serious Man” for Working Title and Focus.
I don’t know if you know this, according to Variety: “No Country” has become the highest-grossing film for the brothers, and the pic is nominated for eight Oscars. The Coens are up for four of them, and their trophy haul so far includes WGA, SAG, DGA, PGA and BAFTA awards.
“Yiddish” is the third Chabon novel that Rudin is translating to the screen. The first was “Wonder Boys,” and Rudin is working on a Paramount-based adaptation of Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” which Chabon wrote for the screen.
Go Chabon!!!
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