This American Life Getting Into Movies, Plan Spy R...
This American Life Getting Into Movies, Plan Spy Romance For Starters
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278 days ago
After several years of the best radio show ever produced, a none-too-shabby TV variant and a good handful of live engagements, Ira Glass and This American Life are finally getting into the movie business. Inevitable, perhaps.
Somewhat surprisingly, though, the screenwriters lined up for their first picture are the guys behind the script for Joe Johnston’s upcoming Captain America as well as the first two Narnia movies; yet perhaps less surprisingly for This Life collaborators, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely also wrote The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and collaborated with Cameron Crowe on a proposed, yet stalled, remake of the Ernst Lubitsch masterpiece Trouble in Paradise. (Who on earth thought Crowe would need assistance in adapting Lubitsch???)
It’s propped up between these different genre types that I suspect the American Life project will stand, though leaning somewhat on the latter.
Based up Arthur Phillips’ story Wenceslas Square, the film will be a love story about spies in Czechoslovakia at the end of the cold war. Scope for some minor-key action shenanigans to keep the financiers in hope of a juicy trailer campaign, but also something characterful, rich in a sense of time and place.
Somewhat surprisingly, though, the screenwriters lined up for their first picture are the guys behind the script for Joe Johnston’s upcoming Captain America as well as the first two Narnia movies; yet perhaps less surprisingly for This Life collaborators, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely also wrote The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and collaborated with Cameron Crowe on a proposed, yet stalled, remake of the Ernst Lubitsch masterpiece Trouble in Paradise. (Who on earth thought Crowe would need assistance in adapting Lubitsch???)
It’s propped up between these different genre types that I suspect the American Life project will stand, though leaning somewhat on the latter.
Based up Arthur Phillips’ story Wenceslas Square, the film will be a love story about spies in Czechoslovakia at the end of the cold war. Scope for some minor-key action shenanigans to keep the financiers in hope of a juicy trailer campaign, but also something characterful, rich in a sense of time and place.
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