Screen Media is planning a March limited theatrical release of James Ivory's "The City of Your Final Destination" reports Variety.
Based on Peter Cameron's 2002 novel and adapted by Ruth Jhabvala, the story follows a young American academic, who attempts to persuade the reluctant heirs of a celebrated Uruguayan novelist to allow him to write an authorized biography of the writer.
Anthony Hopkins portrays the writer's brother and Laura Linney plays the writer's widow. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Omar Metwally, Alexandra Maria Lara, Norma Aleandro and Hiroyuki Sanada also star.
Paul Bradley and Pierre Proner produced the Argentina-shot flick which marks Ivory's first effort since the passing of longtime producing collaborator Ismail Merchant.
Based on Peter Cameron's 2002 novel and adapted by Ruth Jhabvala, the story follows a young American academic, who attempts to persuade the reluctant heirs of a celebrated Uruguayan novelist to allow him to write an authorized biography of the writer.
Anthony Hopkins portrays the writer's brother and Laura Linney plays the writer's widow. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Omar Metwally, Alexandra Maria Lara, Norma Aleandro and Hiroyuki Sanada also star.
Paul Bradley and Pierre Proner produced the Argentina-shot flick which marks Ivory's first effort since the passing of longtime producing collaborator Ismail Merchant.
- 1/6/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
- #49. The City Of Your Final Destination Director: James IvoryWriters: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Le Divorce) Producers: Paul Bradley and Richard Hawley (Heights) Distributor: Currently Seeking Distribution The Gist: Based on the novel by Peter Cameron and Ruth Prawer Jhabval's screenplay, this sees Omar Metwally as an Iranian-born graduate student at the University Of Kansas who travels to Argentina to seek permission from the family of a deceased Latin American author to write his authorized biography. Fact: This is Ivory's first project since the passing of Ismail Merchant - his longtime producer died in 05'. See It: Incredible varied cast Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexandra Maria Lara, Hiroyuki Sanada and Anthony Hopkins (now in his 4th project with Ivory) and beautiful backdrops should make for a very watchable fair. Release Date/Status?: Legal issues might have complicated matters, but a release this year is probalby going to follow a major
- 1/30/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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