“Trash” adaptation by Stephen Daldry
English studio Working Title Films, in collaboration with Peapie Films has acquired film rights to the novel of Andy Mulligan's "Trash". The script will write the author of "Real Love" Richard Curtis, in director chair will be Stephen Daldry ("Billy Elliot").
The action thriller will develop in our time in one of the third world countries. The main characters - three boys living in a landfill. Raphael, Gardo and Rat daily rummage through garbage to support their existence. But once they run into a leather bag, the contents of which forever changes their lives.
Mulligan "Trash" was published in Britain last fall and earned high marks from critics. "From the first page I realized that I have found one of the most interesting and dynamic books of our time", - the head of Peapie Films Chris Tike. Among his production work - the new tape of Madonna "M. Ll.", "Stardust" and "Kick Ass".
The writer believes that the tandem of Curtis Daldry - a real dream team, and especially enjoys the fact that the writer is not going to sugar coat anything in his book.
Tike brought a book to the company Working Title for review, where it attracted the interest of Richard Curtis and Stephen Daldry. It is worth noting that the producer had previously worked for Working Title in the PR department.
Filming is scheduled for 2012.
The latest work by Richard Curtis - the adaptation of the novel by Michael Morpurgo "Warhorse". A film by the book has been filmed by Steven Spielberg. Stephen Daldry now removes the film on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely loud and incredibly close."