Ahead of start of production in New York on Monday [13], Sebastian Koch, Elsa Zylberstein and Christopher Lambert have joined the romantic drama as Bloom continues sales at the Efm.
Paul Weitz will direct Bel Canto and adapted the screenplay with Anthony Weintraub from Ann Patchett’s novel of the same name.
Julianne Moore will star alongside Ken Watanabe in the story set against the backdrop of a hostage crisis in South America.
Moore will play a famous soprano invited to perform at the birthday party of a rich Japanese industrialist when guerrillas storm the building. Grammy-winning soprano Renée Fleming will provide vocals.
Bloom introduced Bel Canto in Toronto last year and Wme Global handles Us rights.
Caroline Baron and Anthony Weintraub will produce through A-Line Pictures alongside Weitz and Andrew Miano of Depth of Field, and Lizzie Friedman, Karen Lauder and Greg Little of Priority Pictures.
Paul Weitz will direct Bel Canto and adapted the screenplay with Anthony Weintraub from Ann Patchett’s novel of the same name.
Julianne Moore will star alongside Ken Watanabe in the story set against the backdrop of a hostage crisis in South America.
Moore will play a famous soprano invited to perform at the birthday party of a rich Japanese industrialist when guerrillas storm the building. Grammy-winning soprano Renée Fleming will provide vocals.
Bloom introduced Bel Canto in Toronto last year and Wme Global handles Us rights.
Caroline Baron and Anthony Weintraub will produce through A-Line Pictures alongside Weitz and Andrew Miano of Depth of Field, and Lizzie Friedman, Karen Lauder and Greg Little of Priority Pictures.
- 2/9/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Kirsten Dunst will make her feature film directorial debut on an independent film adaptation of Sylvia Plath's iconic 1963 novel "The Bell Jar" at Priority Pictures.
Dunst has adapted the script with Nellie Kim in which Dakota Fanning will play the lead role of Esther Greenwood. Greenwood takes an internship at a magazine in New York City and then begins to suffer a mental breakdown when she returns home to Boston. The novel is the only book ever published by Plath who committed suicide in 1963.
Fanning, Brittany Kahan, Lizzie Friedman, Karen Lauder and Greg Little will produce. Production aims to begin in the first quarter of 2017.
Source: Deadline...
Dunst has adapted the script with Nellie Kim in which Dakota Fanning will play the lead role of Esther Greenwood. Greenwood takes an internship at a magazine in New York City and then begins to suffer a mental breakdown when she returns home to Boston. The novel is the only book ever published by Plath who committed suicide in 1963.
Fanning, Brittany Kahan, Lizzie Friedman, Karen Lauder and Greg Little will produce. Production aims to begin in the first quarter of 2017.
Source: Deadline...
- 7/20/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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