According to Variety, Scott Stuber of Stuber Prods. has bought the screen rights to the novel titled AMERICAN RUST by author Phillip Meyer, no relation to that Twilight author.
The project will be directed by Walter Salles and the script to be written by Jose Rivera. These are the guys behind The Motorcycle Diaries, the biopic about the younger Che Guevara starring Gael Garcia Bernal.
AMERICAN RUST which is Meyer’s debut novel was recently short-listed for the 2009 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.
Salles and Rivera are also working on another adaptation based on the novel The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
That one is about the character named Oscar Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd who dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants because of the curse that has haunted the Oscar’s family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love.
Here’s the official synopsis of the book AMERICAN RUST… Read the rest of this entry »
