Exclusive: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the team behind the 2010 Sundance Film Festival documentary Catfish and Paranormal Activity 3, will write and direct an adaptation of the Edward Abbey novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. The project has been set up by Edward R. Pressman, who is producing with Grammy-winning album cover artist Gary Burden. The producers have been tooling around with The Monkey Wrench Gang for about 15 years but feel they’ve now got the right filmmakers to see through a movie adaptation of the ’70s tale. Written in 1975, the novel follows a gang of four guys who try to battle over-development in the American West in the 70s. They do this with bumbling attempts at sabotage, attacking deserted bulldozers, construction equipment and trains, with a vow they will not harm a human, animal, plant or rock. Well, three of the quartet take that to heart; the fourth, a young Vietnam vet named Hayduke,...
- 5/7/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
NEW YORK -- Christopher Buckley's Wall Street satire God Is My Broker is being brought to the big screen by Edward R. Pressman Film Corp., Polsky Films and Stephen Belafonte's WhiteShark Films, with screenwriter Peter Himmelstein set to adapt the novel.
Buckley (Thank You for Smoking) sold Pressman the rights to his 1998 book, which centers on an alcoholic stock broker who gives everything up and joins a monastery. But when the monks' vow of poverty begins to take a financial toll, the former broker uses his old skills to save them, turning his new home into a frightning parallel of the world he desperately tried to escape.
Pressman, Alan and Gabe Polsky and Belafonte will produce the project. Pressman Films' Alessandro Camon and Sarah Ramey will serve as executive producers.
Himmelstein is finishing production on his feature writing and directing debut, the black comedy/thriller The Key Man, starring Jack Davenport, Brian Cox and Hugo Weaving.
Broker is the first project of the new production outfit Polsky Films.
Buckley (Thank You for Smoking) sold Pressman the rights to his 1998 book, which centers on an alcoholic stock broker who gives everything up and joins a monastery. But when the monks' vow of poverty begins to take a financial toll, the former broker uses his old skills to save them, turning his new home into a frightning parallel of the world he desperately tried to escape.
Pressman, Alan and Gabe Polsky and Belafonte will produce the project. Pressman Films' Alessandro Camon and Sarah Ramey will serve as executive producers.
Himmelstein is finishing production on his feature writing and directing debut, the black comedy/thriller The Key Man, starring Jack Davenport, Brian Cox and Hugo Weaving.
Broker is the first project of the new production outfit Polsky Films.
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