Scott Z. Burns Directing The Professor and the Bikini Model. Writer Scott Z. Burns will direct the film version of of the Maxine Swann‘s New York Times Magazine article The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble for Fox Searchlight. Burns may write the film as well. On the [...]
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- 2/5/2014
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Well known as a screenwriter, Scott Z. Burns made his debut as a director with the 2006 HBO drama Pu-239, starring Paddy Considine. Since then he's made short films and an episode of Californication, but he's now in talks to get behind the camera for another feature. He'd also write the film, inspired by the true events outlined in the New York Times article The Professor, The Bikini Model And The Suitcase Full Of Trouble.The story, originally written by Maxine Swann, centres on Paul Frampton, for thirty years a theoretical particle physicist at The University Of North Carolina. "A very good scientist with the emotional age of a three-year-old" according to his ex-wife, Frampton was duped into an online relationship with a supposed Czech supermodel.Against the advice of appalled and concerned friends and colleagues, he ended up, with thudding inevitability, travelling to Bolivia in posession of a suitcase given...
- 2/3/2014
- EmpireOnline
"Contagion" and "Side Effects" scribe Scott Z. Burns is in talks to adapt and direct "The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble" for Fox Searchlight.
Based on Maxine Swann's New York Times Magazine feature and described as a "modern day Lolita," the story follows a divorced theoretical particle physicist who meets a Czech bikini model online.
The two begin to correspond and plan a life together, but she asks if he would deliver a special package to her - a request that puts him in serious danger.
Source: THR...
Based on Maxine Swann's New York Times Magazine feature and described as a "modern day Lolita," the story follows a divorced theoretical particle physicist who meets a Czech bikini model online.
The two begin to correspond and plan a life together, but she asks if he would deliver a special package to her - a request that puts him in serious danger.
Source: THR...
- 1/31/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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