Tommy Lee Jones is set to star in Stoner, the next project from Brit director Joe Wright (Atonement)
The film, which is being produced by Blumhouse Productions and backed by the Cohen Media Group and Film4, is based on John Williams' 1965 novel, adapted by Andrew Bovell, and will see the Oscar-winning actor team with newly minted Academy Award winner Casey Affleck, whose casting was announced last month. Although the book wasn't a hit when it was first published, it became a best-seller after being reissued in 2003.
Affleck is set to play the title role of William Stoner, a...
The film, which is being produced by Blumhouse Productions and backed by the Cohen Media Group and Film4, is based on John Williams' 1965 novel, adapted by Andrew Bovell, and will see the Oscar-winning actor team with newly minted Academy Award winner Casey Affleck, whose casting was announced last month. Although the book wasn't a hit when it was first published, it became a best-seller after being reissued in 2003.
Affleck is set to play the title role of William Stoner, a...
- 10/11/2017
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Casey Affleck has signed on to star in his first movie since winning the Best Actor Oscar for his heavy and emotional role in Manchester By the Sea. The film is called Stoner and it will be directed by Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna, The Soloist). The movie is based on a novel by the same name written by Jon Williams.
The story will follow the life of William Stoner, “a dirt-poor farmer turned academic, who emerges as an unlikely existential hero while making his way through the first half of the 20th Century.”
Producer Jason Blum has this to say in a statement:
“Because the novel is so beautiful but not well-known, fans of ‘Stoner’ feel like they’re in a secret club. I’m so excited that Casey, Joe and Andrew have come aboard to help expand this club’s membership. This quintessentially American work is being brought to...
The story will follow the life of William Stoner, “a dirt-poor farmer turned academic, who emerges as an unlikely existential hero while making his way through the first half of the 20th Century.”
Producer Jason Blum has this to say in a statement:
“Because the novel is so beautiful but not well-known, fans of ‘Stoner’ feel like they’re in a secret club. I’m so excited that Casey, Joe and Andrew have come aboard to help expand this club’s membership. This quintessentially American work is being brought to...
- 9/6/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Casey Affleck has signed on to star in “Stoner,” an adaptation of the John Williams cult novel set up at Blumhouse Pictures. Affleck, long a fan of the 1965 book, will play the titular role of long-suffering academic William Stoner, who is stuck in a loveless marriage and a thankless job. The New Yorker has called the book the “greatest American novel you’ve never heard of,” and called the protagonist the polar opposite of Jay Gatsby, the subject of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s canon classic “The Great Gatsby.” Sounds like a project Affleck would adore. Also Read: 'A Ghost Story...
- 9/5/2017
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
Manchester By The Sea Oscar winner Casey Affleck is boarding Stoner, a movie from Blumhouse, Cohen Media Group and Film 4 based on the critically acclaimed 1965 novel by John Williams. Joe Wright is set to direct Andrew Bovell’s adapted screenplay. Affleck plays the title role of William Stoner, a dirt poor farmer-turned-academic who emerges as an unlikely existential hero while making his way through the first half of the 2oth century. In the book, Stoner deals with his…...
- 9/5/2017
- Deadline
Blumhouse Productions, Cohen Media Group (Cmg), and Film4 have today announced a massive team-up: a big screen adaption of John Williams’ novel “Stoner” that will pair up Oscar-winning actor Casey Affleck (in the title role) and multiple BAFTA-winning director Joe Wright, aided by a Andrew Bovell-penned screenplay. Based on Williams’ 1965 novel, the film will follow “the hardscrabble life of William Stoner, a dirt-poor farmer turned academic, who emerges as an unlikely existential hero while making his way through the first half of the 20th century.”
While Williams first published the book in the mid-sixties, but reissues by both Vintage and New York Review Books Classics in the early aughts helped propel it to the admiration that previously eluded it (the book sold just 2,000 copies in its first run, and went out of print a year later). Blumhouse optioned the book in 2011.
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While Williams first published the book in the mid-sixties, but reissues by both Vintage and New York Review Books Classics in the early aughts helped propel it to the admiration that previously eluded it (the book sold just 2,000 copies in its first run, and went out of print a year later). Blumhouse optioned the book in 2011.
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- 9/5/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Casey Affleck and Joe Wright are teaming up to adapt Stoner, the acclaimed 1965 novel by John Williams.
Blumhouse Productions, Cohen Media Group (CMG) and Film4 , who made the announcement, are behind the feature project.
Andrew Bovell, a playwright-turned-screenwriter who previously wrote Lantana and the Mel Gibson thriller Edge of Darkness, is penning the script that adapts the story that tells the “hardscrabble life of William Stoner, a dirt-poor farmer turned academic, who emerges as an unlikely existential hero while making his way through the first half of the 20th Century,” according to the companies.
The novel was...
Blumhouse Productions, Cohen Media Group (CMG) and Film4 , who made the announcement, are behind the feature project.
Andrew Bovell, a playwright-turned-screenwriter who previously wrote Lantana and the Mel Gibson thriller Edge of Darkness, is penning the script that adapts the story that tells the “hardscrabble life of William Stoner, a dirt-poor farmer turned academic, who emerges as an unlikely existential hero while making his way through the first half of the 20th Century,” according to the companies.
The novel was...
- 9/5/2017
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I interviewed James Ellroy, the great American noir novelist, at La's venerable Pacific Dining Car in April 2001. We were there to discuss his latest book, The Cold Six Thousand, but wound up tackling a myriad of subjects over our three hour lunch. Ellroy sported a snappy fedora that I said would have looked great on Meyer Lansky. He barked a laugh and removed it, displaying his bald pate. When he looked at my full head of 33 year-old hair, his eyes narrowed: "That thing on your head real or a rug?" "Real," I replied. Ellroy exhaled for what seemed like a full minute, then murmured: "Cocksucker." We were off and running.
James Ellroy: Bark At The Moon
The "Demon Dog of American Fiction" sinks his teeth into Rfk, Mlk and Vietnam with The Cold Six Thousand
If there were any justice in this world, and in the world of James Ellroy that's debatable,...
James Ellroy: Bark At The Moon
The "Demon Dog of American Fiction" sinks his teeth into Rfk, Mlk and Vietnam with The Cold Six Thousand
If there were any justice in this world, and in the world of James Ellroy that's debatable,...
- 5/27/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Beloved U.S. TV icon Ed McMahon has been given the go-ahead by a U.S. judge to proceed with a lawsuit against Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in which he accuses doctors of failing to cure his neck problems.
The former Tonight Show sidekick, who has been suffered a series of financial woes this year, checked into the hospital after breaking his neck in a fall at billionaire Robert Day's home last year.
He claims the treatment he received wasn't acceptable and alleges he is still experiencing neck pain which prevents him from working.
On Monday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John P. Sook dismissed the hospital's lawyers' technical objections, ruling that McMahon had adequate legal grounds to pursue compensation.
He is now suing the hospital's bosses and two physicians for negligence, elder abuse, battery, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress, among other accusations, and is seeking a jury trial.
McMahon's attorney, William Stoner, says, "The court's ruling rejected the contention by Cedars-Sinai that it could not be responsible for the botched surgeries. It was a very important day for Ed McMahon."
McMahon is also suing Day after slipping on "unsafe entry stairs" outside his home.
The 85 year old is currently battling a number of financial problems and faces lawsuits from a major credit card company, a pharmacy, and a New York law firm.
The former Tonight Show sidekick, who has been suffered a series of financial woes this year, checked into the hospital after breaking his neck in a fall at billionaire Robert Day's home last year.
He claims the treatment he received wasn't acceptable and alleges he is still experiencing neck pain which prevents him from working.
On Monday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John P. Sook dismissed the hospital's lawyers' technical objections, ruling that McMahon had adequate legal grounds to pursue compensation.
He is now suing the hospital's bosses and two physicians for negligence, elder abuse, battery, fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress, among other accusations, and is seeking a jury trial.
McMahon's attorney, William Stoner, says, "The court's ruling rejected the contention by Cedars-Sinai that it could not be responsible for the botched surgeries. It was a very important day for Ed McMahon."
McMahon is also suing Day after slipping on "unsafe entry stairs" outside his home.
The 85 year old is currently battling a number of financial problems and faces lawsuits from a major credit card company, a pharmacy, and a New York law firm.
- 9/23/2008
- WENN
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