River Road Entertainment has optioned the screen rights to Joanna Smith Rakoff's novel "My Salinger Year" says Deadline.
The story is inspired by the author’s own experiences as a college grad who takes a clerical job at the agency that repped famed "The Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger.
She soon develops an unexpected relationship with the iconic but reclusive man, becoming the barrier protecting his privacy from an adoring public.
Emma Forrest, who recently adapted her own memoir "Your Voice In My Head" for Warners, will write the script.
The story is inspired by the author’s own experiences as a college grad who takes a clerical job at the agency that repped famed "The Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger.
She soon develops an unexpected relationship with the iconic but reclusive man, becoming the barrier protecting his privacy from an adoring public.
Emma Forrest, who recently adapted her own memoir "Your Voice In My Head" for Warners, will write the script.
- 6/6/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
With any luck (and, with any respect for a great work), The Catcher in the Rye will never see the light of a film projector, but that doesn’t mean its reclusive author is totally immune to the silver screen. Rather than adapt another one of his classic works for today’s audiences, however, Bill Pohlad (The Tree of Life) and his River Road Entertainment will tell the man’s story through the work of Joanna Smith Rakoff — specifically, her semi-autobiographical novel My Salinger Year.
They’ve snatched up rights to the upcoming tome, wherein Rakoff depicts her own experiences working for J.D. Salinger‘s agency and how, during this time, she found herself becoming both friends with a man most have never even heard speak and, in addition, “a barrier between him and his adoring public.” (Among other things, this includes responding to fan mail he never even looked at.
They’ve snatched up rights to the upcoming tome, wherein Rakoff depicts her own experiences working for J.D. Salinger‘s agency and how, during this time, she found herself becoming both friends with a man most have never even heard speak and, in addition, “a barrier between him and his adoring public.” (Among other things, this includes responding to fan mail he never even looked at.
- 6/6/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Bill Pohlad’s River Road Entertainment has optioned screen rights to the Joanna Smith Rakoff novel My Salinger Year, and has set Emma Forrest to write the script. Smith Rakoff’s novel, which will be published by Knopf in the winter, is inspired by the author’s own experiences as a college grad who takes a clerical job at the agency that repped famed author J.D. Salinger. The novel deals with an unexpected relationship she developed with the iconic author as she stood as a barrier between him and his adoring public, guarding the reclusive author’s privacy and answering letters that Salinger demanded not to see. Forrest has an affinity for adapting a book based on the author’s story. She adapted her memoir, Your Voice In My Head, a project that is a priority at Warner Bros with Harry Potter‘s Emma Watson attached, even though David Yates recently dropped out.
- 6/5/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
London, Aug 116 – English actress Helena Bonham Carter bears a striking resemblance to some sketches of Florence Nightingale and her cousin, and now we know why-the two are related.
The 44-year-old star of the Merchant Ivory films ‘Howard’s End’ and ‘A Room With A View’ is the first cousin three times removed of the Lady with the Lamp.
Florence’s mother Fanny was the sister of Joanna Smith, who married John Bonham Carter, Helena’s great-great grandfather.
Last week marked the centenary of the nurse’s death as The.
The 44-year-old star of the Merchant Ivory films ‘Howard’s End’ and ‘A Room With A View’ is the first cousin three times removed of the Lady with the Lamp.
Florence’s mother Fanny was the sister of Joanna Smith, who married John Bonham Carter, Helena’s great-great grandfather.
Last week marked the centenary of the nurse’s death as The.
- 8/16/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
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