Yaron Zilberman ("A Late Quartet") is set to write and direct "Sonata," a film based on "Ender's Game" author Orson Scott Card‘s 1979 science-fiction short story "Unaccompanied Sonata".
The story follows a child who has been brought up to be a musical prodigy, and who is kept away from listening to other people's music to keep his creative expressions pure. Raised alone in a cabin by servants, he spends his days toiling on a complicated musical instrument.
Finally, he gains exposure to the works of Bach, and when discovered by a 'watcher,' the man is torn away from his lifelong composition and barred from making music ever again.
Card reportedly didn't plan to sell the rights to the film until he saw Zilberman's work with "A Late Quartet" and realised it could be translated to the screen after all. Zilberman, Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz will produce.
The story follows a child who has been brought up to be a musical prodigy, and who is kept away from listening to other people's music to keep his creative expressions pure. Raised alone in a cabin by servants, he spends his days toiling on a complicated musical instrument.
Finally, he gains exposure to the works of Bach, and when discovered by a 'watcher,' the man is torn away from his lifelong composition and barred from making music ever again.
Card reportedly didn't plan to sell the rights to the film until he saw Zilberman's work with "A Late Quartet" and realised it could be translated to the screen after all. Zilberman, Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz will produce.
- 7/15/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Las Vegas, Nv – June 19, 2011 – The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) this evening announced the winners of the 38th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards in a live television broadcast on the CBS Television Network from the Las Vegas Hilton. Hosted by the entertainer Wayne Brady, the host of the Daytime Game Show, “Let’s Make a Deal,” the 38th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to game show hosts Pat Sajak of Wheel of Fortune and Alex Trebek of Jeopardy! In addition, Oprah Winfrey was honored with the Chairman’s Crystal Pillar Award for her three decades on network television. Associated Television International’s (Ati) President and Emmy award-winning producer David McKenzie served as executive producer of the broadcast. The Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards recognize outstanding achievement in all fields of daytime television production and are presented to individuals and programs broadcast from 2:00 Am-...
- 6/20/2011
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
Exclusive: The Weinstein Company has acquired domestic distribution rights to Cogan’s Trade, the Andrew Dominik-directed adaptation of the George V. Higgins novel. Brad Pitt plays the title character, Jackie Cogan, a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that takes place during a high stakes poker game held under the protection of the mob. I’m told that Harvey Weinstein bested multiple suitors by pledging a $20 million P&A guarantee. The film starts production February 28, and TWC plans a wide release in the first quarter of 2012. Pitt will star with Casey Affleck and Sam Rockwell, reuniting the team from Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford. I’ve heard James Gandolfini could join the cast, but that isn’t certain. Dominik wrote the script. The deal was made by CAA and TWC’s acquisition head Pete Lawson and COO David Glasser. Inferno financed Cogan’s Trade,...
- 1/12/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
More casting news, guys! Sam Rockwell is in talks to re-team with his The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford director Andrew Dominik and co-star Brad Pitt for the comedic crime saga Cogan’s Trade.
Now, when we shared official details with you, make sure you check out the rest of this report…
Cogan’s Trade tracks Jackie Cogan’s career in a gangland version of law and order. For Cogan is an enforcer; and when the Mob’s rules get broken, he gets hired to ply his trade – murder.
In the gritty, tough-talking pages of Higgins’s 1974 national best-seller, Cogan is called in when a high-stake card game under the protection of the Mob is heisted.
Expertly, with a ruthless businessman’s efficiency, a shrewd sense of other people’s weaknesses, and a style as cold as his stare, Cogan moves with reliable precision to restore...
Now, when we shared official details with you, make sure you check out the rest of this report…
Cogan’s Trade tracks Jackie Cogan’s career in a gangland version of law and order. For Cogan is an enforcer; and when the Mob’s rules get broken, he gets hired to ply his trade – murder.
In the gritty, tough-talking pages of Higgins’s 1974 national best-seller, Cogan is called in when a high-stake card game under the protection of the Mob is heisted.
Expertly, with a ruthless businessman’s efficiency, a shrewd sense of other people’s weaknesses, and a style as cold as his stare, Cogan moves with reliable precision to restore...
- 1/6/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Brad Pitt is in talks to star in the mob heist comedy "Cogan's Trade."According to Variety, Andrew Dominick is directing from his own script.This would reunite Pitt with Dominick, who wrote and directed 2007's "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" that starred Pitt.Dominik is looking to cast some of his other "Jesse James" actors for the film, with names such as Sam Rockwell and Casey Affleck being mentioned, along with Mark Ruffalo and Javier Bardem. The film centers on Jackie Cogan (Pitt), a mob enforcer who investigates a heist that takes place during a mob-protected poker game.Pitt is producing with Dede Gardner through their Plan B, along with Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz from Chockstone.
- 11/3/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
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