Us director to follow Nebraska with The Judge's Will, by late Merchant Ivory scriptwriter
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Nebraska director Alexander Payne is set to direct a film based on The Judge's Will, the last published work by novelist and scriptwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, according to Deadline. The Judge's Will was included in the March 25 2013 issue of the New Yorker, shortly before Jhabvala died in April.
Jhabvala was born in Germany but later moved to India (after marrying architect Cyrus Jhabvala) and then the Us, and remains best known as the writer of a string of film scripts for Merchant Ivory, including Heat and Dust, Room with a View and Howards End. She won two Oscars, for the latter two films.
The Judge's Will recounts the preparations an Indian judge with heart disease makes for after his death, providing for both his family and his mistress.
• Oscar predictions 2014: Nebraska
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Nebraska director Alexander Payne is set to direct a film based on The Judge's Will, the last published work by novelist and scriptwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, according to Deadline. The Judge's Will was included in the March 25 2013 issue of the New Yorker, shortly before Jhabvala died in April.
Jhabvala was born in Germany but later moved to India (after marrying architect Cyrus Jhabvala) and then the Us, and remains best known as the writer of a string of film scripts for Merchant Ivory, including Heat and Dust, Room with a View and Howards End. She won two Oscars, for the latter two films.
The Judge's Will recounts the preparations an Indian judge with heart disease makes for after his death, providing for both his family and his mistress.
- 10/9/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Novelist and screenwriter known for her work on Merchant Ivory films, including A Room with a View and Heat and Dust
The writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who has died aged 85, achieved her greatest fame late in life, and for work she had once dismissed as a hobby – listing "writing film scripts" as a recreation in Who's Who. Her original screenplays and adaptations of literary classics for the film producer Ismail Merchant and the director James Ivory were met with box-office and critical success. The trio met in 1961, and almost immediately became collaborators, as well as close and lifelong friends.
Soon after Merchant and Ivory themselves met (in New York), Merchant proposed that they make a film of Jhabvala's early novel The Householder (1960). The pair then went to Delhi and asked her to sell them the book and write a screenplay of it in eight days flat. Over the next five decades,...
The writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who has died aged 85, achieved her greatest fame late in life, and for work she had once dismissed as a hobby – listing "writing film scripts" as a recreation in Who's Who. Her original screenplays and adaptations of literary classics for the film producer Ismail Merchant and the director James Ivory were met with box-office and critical success. The trio met in 1961, and almost immediately became collaborators, as well as close and lifelong friends.
Soon after Merchant and Ivory themselves met (in New York), Merchant proposed that they make a film of Jhabvala's early novel The Householder (1960). The pair then went to Delhi and asked her to sell them the book and write a screenplay of it in eight days flat. Over the next five decades,...
- 4/4/2013
- by Janet Watts
- The Guardian - Film News
Oscar-winning screenwriter and award-winning novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died. She was 85.
Firoza Jhabvala said Wednesday that her mother died in New York after a long illness.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a longtime member of Merchant Ivory Productions, writing 22 films over four decades. She won two Academy Awards for her adaptations of the E.M. Forster novels Howards End and A Room With a View. She was also nominated for adapting 1993′s The Remains of the Day. All three films were also best-picture contenders.
“Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has been a beloved member of the Merchant Ivory family since 1960, comprising one-third of...
Firoza Jhabvala said Wednesday that her mother died in New York after a long illness.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a longtime member of Merchant Ivory Productions, writing 22 films over four decades. She won two Academy Awards for her adaptations of the E.M. Forster novels Howards End and A Room With a View. She was also nominated for adapting 1993′s The Remains of the Day. All three films were also best-picture contenders.
“Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has been a beloved member of the Merchant Ivory family since 1960, comprising one-third of...
- 4/4/2013
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside Movies
Los Angeles -- Oscar-winning screenwriter and award-winning novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died. She was 85.
Firoza Jhabvala said Wednesday that her mother died in New York after a long illness.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a longtime member of Merchant Ivory Productions, writing 22 films over four decades. She won two Academy Awards for her adaptations of the E.M. Forster novels "Howards End" and "A Room With a View." She was also nominated for adapting 1993's "The Remains of the Day." All three films were also best-picture contenders.
"Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has been a beloved member of the Merchant Ivory family since 1960, comprising one-third of our indomitable trifecta that included director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant," said the company's director of development, Neil Jesuele. "The passing of our two-time Academy Award winning screenwriter is a significant loss to the global film community."
Jhabvala was also recognized for her fiction,...
Firoza Jhabvala said Wednesday that her mother died in New York after a long illness.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a longtime member of Merchant Ivory Productions, writing 22 films over four decades. She won two Academy Awards for her adaptations of the E.M. Forster novels "Howards End" and "A Room With a View." She was also nominated for adapting 1993's "The Remains of the Day." All three films were also best-picture contenders.
"Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has been a beloved member of the Merchant Ivory family since 1960, comprising one-third of our indomitable trifecta that included director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant," said the company's director of development, Neil Jesuele. "The passing of our two-time Academy Award winning screenwriter is a significant loss to the global film community."
Jhabvala was also recognized for her fiction,...
- 4/4/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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