Neil Jordan adaptation of the Booker nominee
The novel by Irish writer Paul Murray "Skippy Dies" - included in the long list of winners for the prestigious Booker Prize. Director of the movie "Interview with the Vampire" Neil Jordan will write the script and put it on film.
Now Jordan is working on the show "Borgia" for Showtime. This is a crime drama, action which is developing in Italy, the 13th century. The project was originally intended for the big screen, but the time otherwise. Also, the director assigned to the adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel "The Graveyard Book", but production of this film has not yet planned.
As a result, Neil Jordan has at his disposal next novel, which he would have to make a film. "Skippy Dies" in its genre black comedy. The main characters - school friends Skippy and Ruprecht. Overweight genius Ruprecht Van Doren is fond of complex mathematical problems a weakness for horn and extraterrestrial civilizations. Daniel Juster nicknamed "Skippy" - Ruprecht neighbor through the room. Skippy's mother is dying of cancer, and he himself is being regularly humiliated by Physic teacher. At the Dublin college Seabrook nobody pays attention on them.
But when Skippy falls in love with a girl from another school, his modest person suddenly becomes the object of interest in a variety of characters, including Karl, school psychopath and partly trafficker. While teachers college fight for modernization, Ruprecht tries to open a portal into the parallel universe, Skippy involved in the competition eating donuts, which ended fatally for him. Attempts of Ruprecht to reach his friend after death, poured into a series of bizarre experiments.
The last major release of Neil Jordan was the crime drama "The Brave One" with Jodie Foster, released in 2007.
A year ago the director shot "Ondine" with Colin Farrell, but the fate of the film cash release did not work. Director has won an Oscar for the screenplay for his film "The Crying Game".