Exclusive: Oscar-shortlisted Panamanian filmmaker Abner Benaim (Plaza Catedral) is gearing up to direct a feature adaptation of Nemesis, the final bestseller by Philip Roth to be published prior to the famed author’s 2018 passing.
Dealing with such timely themes as an epidemic and antisemitism, Nemesis was described in The New Yorker as having “the elegance of a fable and the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama.” The novel published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in October of 2010 is set in the summer of 1944, examining the impact of a polio epidemic on a Newark, NJ community and its children.
Peter Glanz (The Longest Week) adapted the screenplay. Pablo Larraín, Juan de Dios Larraín and Andrew Hevia will produce for Fabula — the production company behind Foreign Language Oscar winner A Fantastic Woman, the Kristen Stewart starrer Spencer, and the upcoming drama Maria starring Angelina Jolie. Fernando Loureiro produces for Tigresa.
Dealing with such timely themes as an epidemic and antisemitism, Nemesis was described in The New Yorker as having “the elegance of a fable and the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama.” The novel published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in October of 2010 is set in the summer of 1944, examining the impact of a polio epidemic on a Newark, NJ community and its children.
Peter Glanz (The Longest Week) adapted the screenplay. Pablo Larraín, Juan de Dios Larraín and Andrew Hevia will produce for Fabula — the production company behind Foreign Language Oscar winner A Fantastic Woman, the Kristen Stewart starrer Spencer, and the upcoming drama Maria starring Angelina Jolie. Fernando Loureiro produces for Tigresa.
- 5/16/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris (The Hours), Edgar Ramirez (Carlos) and Cléménce Poesy (The Tunnel) are among an impressive lineup of U.S. and international actors joining Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) in World War II story Resistance.
Harris will portray General George S. Patton in the film based on the inspirational true story of iconic French mime artist Marcel Marceau who worked with the French Resistance to help save the lives of thousands of orphans during the war. The film will chart how groups of Girl and Boy Scouts created a network to help save children whose parents had been killed by the Nazis. Marceau, an orthodox Jew whose father was killed in Auschwitz, is said to have learned to mime partly in order to help the children escape.
According to the film’s producers, Eisenberg, whose mother was a professional clown, has been working on his mime...
Harris will portray General George S. Patton in the film based on the inspirational true story of iconic French mime artist Marcel Marceau who worked with the French Resistance to help save the lives of thousands of orphans during the war. The film will chart how groups of Girl and Boy Scouts created a network to help save children whose parents had been killed by the Nazis. Marceau, an orthodox Jew whose father was killed in Auschwitz, is said to have learned to mime partly in order to help the children escape.
According to the film’s producers, Eisenberg, whose mother was a professional clown, has been working on his mime...
- 10/30/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Pair in negotiations to play resistance fighter and SS commander respectively.
Haley Bennett (The Magnificent Seven) and Matthias Schweighöfer (Thomas Vinterberg’s upcoming Kursk) are in talks to take key roles in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance.
Jesse Eisenberg is playing legendary mime artist Marcel Marceau in the film, which details his involvement in the French Resistance during the Second World War.
Bennett will play a resistance fighter who plays a vital role in inspiring Marceau to join her to rescue thousands of children, while Schweighöfer will play a notorious SS commander who is personally assigned by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Resistance.
Rocket Science is co-financing and producing the project and is selling it at this week’s European Film Market (Efm). CAA handles domestic rights.
Pantaleon are co-financing and producing, with Epicentral co-producing. Producers are Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag.
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Haley Bennett (The Magnificent Seven) and Matthias Schweighöfer (Thomas Vinterberg’s upcoming Kursk) are in talks to take key roles in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance.
Jesse Eisenberg is playing legendary mime artist Marcel Marceau in the film, which details his involvement in the French Resistance during the Second World War.
Bennett will play a resistance fighter who plays a vital role in inspiring Marceau to join her to rescue thousands of children, while Schweighöfer will play a notorious SS commander who is personally assigned by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Resistance.
Rocket Science is co-financing and producing the project and is selling it at this week’s European Film Market (Efm). CAA handles domestic rights.
Pantaleon are co-financing and producing, with Epicentral co-producing. Producers are Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag.
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- 2/17/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Shanghai and Los Angeles-based Bliss Media has acquired Chinese distribution rights to Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg.
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel's oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at...
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel's oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at...
- 11/3/2017
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shanghai and Los Angeles-based Bliss Media has acquired Chinese distribution rights to Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg.
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel’s oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at Afm.
Marceau was the son ...
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel’s oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at Afm.
Marceau was the son ...
- 11/3/2017
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shanghai and Los Angeles-based Bliss Media has acquired Chinese distribution rights to Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg.
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel’s oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at Afm.
Marceau was the son ...
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel’s oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at Afm.
Marceau was the son ...
- 11/3/2017
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“Resistance” the story of the famed mime Marcel Marceau and how he learned to mime in order to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans in World War II France, written and to be directed by “Hands of Stone” director Jonathan Jakubowicz and produced by Claudine Jakubowicz and Carlos Garcia de Paredes, will star the curly haired and fast talking Jesse Eisenberg who played Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film “The Social Network”. Baptiste Marceau, the oldest son of Marcel, has been closely involved in the research for this European coproduction that CAA is packaging and representing in Cannes. Marceau the artist of silence gave his first major performance to 3,000 American troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau
The producers of last year’s Norwegian hit, “The Wave”, have turned their attention to Marius Holst’s “Betrayed”, the story of the Norwegian Jews...
Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau
The producers of last year’s Norwegian hit, “The Wave”, have turned their attention to Marius Holst’s “Betrayed”, the story of the Norwegian Jews...
- 6/5/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Resistance is a new film project in development that will be based on the true events of Marcel Marceau, a French actor and mime most famous for his stage persona, “Bip The Clown." Marceau became an orphan when his father, a kosher butcher, was killed in Auschwitz. Afterward, he took up the art of miming to bring hope to other orphans who had lost their parents to the Nazis.
According to Variety, "The film will focus on Marceau’s involvement in the French resistance when his country was occupied by the Nazis during World War II."
Marceau was made Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1998 and was awarded the National Order Of Merit in France for his work in the resistance. He also won an Emmy along with many other awards.
Resistance is already being compared to the film Life is Beautiful, which is about a man who...
According to Variety, "The film will focus on Marceau’s involvement in the French resistance when his country was occupied by the Nazis during World War II."
Marceau was made Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1998 and was awarded the National Order Of Merit in France for his work in the resistance. He also won an Emmy along with many other awards.
Resistance is already being compared to the film Life is Beautiful, which is about a man who...
- 5/23/2017
- by Koren Butkovich
- GeekTyrant
Jonathan Jakubowicz to write and direct.
Jesse Eisenberg will play the legendary mime Marcel Marceau in Resistance, a feature that will focus on his involvement in the French resistance during the Second World War.
The film will be in the vein of Life Is Beautiful, in which comedy was used as a device to help children survive the Holocaust.
Jonathan Jakubowicz, whose last film Hands Of Stone starring Edgar Ramirez and Robert De Niro premiered in Cannes last year, will direct from his screenplay.
Production is earmarked for early 2018 and the project is being set up as a European coproduction due to Jakubowicz’s EU citizenship.
Marcel Marceau learned to mime to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis.
He was born Marcel Mangel and grew up speaking Yiddish as the son of a kosher butcher from Strasbourg. His father was eventually killed in Auschwitz.
Marceau was most...
Jesse Eisenberg will play the legendary mime Marcel Marceau in Resistance, a feature that will focus on his involvement in the French resistance during the Second World War.
The film will be in the vein of Life Is Beautiful, in which comedy was used as a device to help children survive the Holocaust.
Jonathan Jakubowicz, whose last film Hands Of Stone starring Edgar Ramirez and Robert De Niro premiered in Cannes last year, will direct from his screenplay.
Production is earmarked for early 2018 and the project is being set up as a European coproduction due to Jakubowicz’s EU citizenship.
Marcel Marceau learned to mime to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis.
He was born Marcel Mangel and grew up speaking Yiddish as the son of a kosher butcher from Strasbourg. His father was eventually killed in Auschwitz.
Marceau was most...
- 5/19/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Jesse Eisenberg is set to play legendary mime Marcel Marceau in Resistance, a film written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz that will focus on Marceau's involvement in the French resistance during WWII. The film is said to be in the vein of Life Is Beautiful, where comedy is used as a tool for children to survive the most dramatic situations imaginable. Claudine Jakubowicz and Carlos Garcia de Paredes produce and will put together the financing. Title is being set up…...
- 5/19/2017
- Deadline
Cannes Film Festival adds Jonathan Jakubowicz-directed boxing drama to Official Selection.
Robert De Niro is to return to the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22) for the world premiere of boxing drama Hands Of Stone. The film has been added to Cannes’ Official Selection as part of the Special Screenings strand and the festival will use the premiere to pay tribute to De Niro.
The Raging Bull star, who was president of the Cannes jury in 2011, has stepped back into the ring for the true story of Panamanian boxer Roberto Duràn (Edgar Ramírez). De Niro plays manager and coach Ray Arcel, who took Duràn to worldwide success in the 1970s and ’80s, which included legendary fights against Sugar Ray Leonard (played by music star Usher).
De Niro will attend the Cannes world premiere on May 16 in the Palais des Festivals’ Grand Theatre Lumière with Venezuelan director Jonathan Jakubowicz, star Ramírez and actress Ana de Armas.
“I’m excited...
Robert De Niro is to return to the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22) for the world premiere of boxing drama Hands Of Stone. The film has been added to Cannes’ Official Selection as part of the Special Screenings strand and the festival will use the premiere to pay tribute to De Niro.
The Raging Bull star, who was president of the Cannes jury in 2011, has stepped back into the ring for the true story of Panamanian boxer Roberto Duràn (Edgar Ramírez). De Niro plays manager and coach Ray Arcel, who took Duràn to worldwide success in the 1970s and ’80s, which included legendary fights against Sugar Ray Leonard (played by music star Usher).
De Niro will attend the Cannes world premiere on May 16 in the Palais des Festivals’ Grand Theatre Lumière with Venezuelan director Jonathan Jakubowicz, star Ramírez and actress Ana de Armas.
“I’m excited...
- 5/3/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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