Logo
Prev
search
Print
addthis
Rotate
Help
Next
Contents
All Pages
Browse Issues
Home
'
Good Reading : September 2009
Contents
screenings From page to screen, literary movies to look out for. the 1950s, in e-Castro Cuba, Amer e Am ican gangsters Meyer Lansky and ucky Luciano hrived. Writer T J English turned this rich material nto a bestselling nonfiction book: Havana Nocturne: th n H How the Mob owned Cuba ... and then lost it to the Revolution or, as it’s known in Australia, The Havana Mob. And now Hollywood is set to turn it into a movie. Says co-producer Eric Eisner of the project: ‘We really want to show Havana and Cuba as a character at a time that it’s booming ... This is about mobsters who don’t only control a few business but try to control an entire country, and the tension that results when their plans go awry.’ In 2003 Jeffrey Eugenides won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, a fascinating exploration of a hermaphrodite’s sexual identity, as well as the history of a Greek-American family in Detroit. The television production company HBO (which produced The Sopranos and Sex and the City) is currently considering an adaptation of the book into a television series wi Greek Wedding) as its executive producer. We Need To Talk About K a Kevin, Lionel S Shriver’s Orange Pr P ize-winning, controversial novel about a high school massacre, is about to enter preproduction with the announcement that Tilda Swinton will star as Eva, the novel’s unreliable narrator. The rights to the book were purchased in 2005 by BBC Films, it will be directed by award-winning Scottish director Lynne Ramsay. BC Films has so acquired th O Li T the rights to The Other Hand (or Little Bee as it is nown in the US) y Chris Cleave. The Other Hand is the compelling tory of a oung English widow and her inexorable connection to a Nigerian refugee. Shortlisted for the Costa (Whitbread) award, the film version will star and be co-produced by Nicole Kidman. th th co N Renee Zellwegger look likely to sign on to reprise the ole of Bridget nes in a third movie. Working Title Films has confirmed that the third movie is in with Rita Wilson (My Big Fat Gr production. It will likely be based on elen Fielding’s column in The Ind co Independent, in wh which Bridget, ow in her 0s, tries to co 2010. conceive a child. roduction is ated to start in 20 . screening eenings From page to screen, literary mo reenings From page to screen, literary movies to look out for. the 1950s, in e-Castro Cuba, Amer e Am ican gangsters Meyer Lansky and ucky Luciano hrived. Writer T J English turned this rich material nto a bestselling nonfiction book: Havana Nocturne: th n H How the Mob owned Cuba ... and then lost it to the Revolution or, as it’s known in Australia, The Havana Mob. And now Hollywood is set to turn it into a movie. Says co-producer Eric Eisner of the project: ‘We really want to show Havana and Cuba as a character at a time that it’s booming ... This is about mobsters who don’t only control a few business but try to control an entire country, and the tension that results when their plans go awry.’ In 2003 Jeffrey Eugenides won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, a fascinating exploration of a hermaphrodite’s sexual identity, as well as the history of a Greek-American family in Detroit. The television production company HBO (which produced The Sopranos and Sex and the City) is currently considering an adaptation of the book into a television series wi Greek Wedding) as its executive producer. We Need To Talk About K a Kevin, Lionel S Shriver’s Orange Pr P ize-winning, controversial novel about a high school massacre, is about to enter pre- production with the announcement that Tilda Swinton will star as Eva, the novel’s unreliable narrator. The rights to the book were purchased in 2005 by BBC Films, it will be directed by award-winning Scottish director Lynne Ramsay. BC Films has so acquired th O Li T the rights to The Other Hand (or Little Bee as it is nown in the US) y Chris Cleave. The Other Hand is the compelling tory of a oung English widow and her inexorable connection to a Nigerian refugee. Shortlisted for the Costa (Whitbread) award, the film version will star and be co-produced by Nicole Kidman. th th co N Renee Zellwegger look likely to sign on to reprise the ole of Bridget nes in a third movie. Working Title Films has confirmed that the third movie is in with Rita Wilson (My Big Fat Gr production. It will likely be based on elen Fielding’s column in The Ind co Independent, in wh which Bridget, ow in her 0s, tries to co 2010. conceive a child. roduction is ated to start in 20 . in in fi ction Meet award winning K A Bedford Revisiting The Merry-go-round in the Sea A different point of view Canadian author Ryan Knighton ORDER YOUR COPY NOW! on sale 30 September MARCH 2009 ı goodreading 53 NEXT ISSUE
Links
Archive
August 2009
October 2009
Navigation
Previous Page
Next Page
