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FeedBig movie news for Michael Chabon fans
Two movie deals for Berkeley author
In October, I wrote a Speak of the Devil story about Rawson Marshall Thurber's film adaptation of Michael Chabon's first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. The Berkeley author has two more movies being made from his books. Director Stephen Daldry, whose current film, The Reader, is in theaters now, has been tapped to direct The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the Y2K novel that won Chabon a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Daldry, who also directed The Hours and Billy Elliott, is very good with book-to-film adaptations and seems like a smart choice for this sprawling story. The late Sydney Pollack and Sam Mendes had been previously rumored to helm the film version.
As excited as I am to see Kavalier and Clay on the big screen, I'm even more excited to see what the Coen Brothers are going to do with The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Chabon's 2007 alternate universe detective novel. I love the Coens, who usually direct their own original screenplays, and have only once before adapted a novel to screen—last year's best picture-winning No Country For Old Men, from the novel by Cormac McCarthy.
Posted at 04:53 PM in Pete's Popcorn Picks | Permalink
Reader Comments:
WOW! The Coen brothers doing Michael Chabon! Can you say MUST SEE?