After having Wag the Dog, Barry Levinson is now set to adapt and direct an independently-financed film version of his own novel Sixty Six.
The story is set in 1966 Baltimore on the eve of such historical events such as the counterculture movement and the war in Vietnam. It follows a staffer at a local television station and also features a diner as the center of social activity.
Levinson is also known for having done Liberty Heights; his most recent work is Polliwood, which is premiering this week at the Tribeca Film Festival.
One of my favorite directors is heading back to his hometown to make his final feature of a series of film with a diner as the center of social activity. Barry Levinson is prolific writer-director. This time he will take his own novel “Sixty-Six,” a story about a group of characters coming of age in 1966 Baltimore on the eve of significant historical events such as the counterculture movement and the war in Vietnam.
Levinson will write the adaptation and direct the film.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the protagonist in “Sixty-Six” is a staffer at a local television station, whom some have noted is a stand-in for Levinson and his professional and personal life.
Sixty-Six completes the series of films in which Levinson contemplates the social dynamics in Baltimore at various periods throughout the 20th century. Beginning with 1983’s Diner set in a very different city of 1959, and covered similar subject matter in Avalon (1990), Tin Men (1987) and Liberty Heights (1999).
I just received the latest trailer for Sixty Six. The move comes from the makers of Four Weddings and a Funeral and About a Boy.
The story takes place in England, the summer of ‘66, when the country is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12-year-old Bernie (Gregg Sulkin), the biggest day of his life is looming, the day he becomes a man – his Bar Mitzvah. Bernie believes his Bar Mitzvah is about to change all this. He’ll no longer be the kid everyone ignores, and he envisions and begins to plan the perfect ceremony and reception, where everyone assembled will acknowledge his new status as a man. Unfortunately for Bernie, things don’t quite go according to plan.
Based on the real life experience of director Paul Weiland, SIXTY SIX is a coming-of-age comedy starring Eddie Marsan (Mission Impossible III, Vera Drake), Helena Bonham Carter (Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Big Fish), Stephen Rea (V for Vendetta, Breakfast on Pluto),Catherine Tate, Peter Serafinowicz (Shaun Of The Dead), Geraldine Somerville, Richard Katz, Ben Newton and Gregg Sulkin.
After having Wag the Dog, Barry Levinson is now set to adapt and direct an independently-financed film version of his own novel Sixty Six.
as the center of social activity. Barry Levinson is prolific writer-director. This time he will take his own novel “Sixty-Six,” a story about a group of characters coming of age in 1966 Baltimore on the eve of significant historical events such as the counterculture movement and the war in Vietnam. 