ALL QUIET ON WESTERN FRONT
TO STAR DANIEL BRUHL
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| The movie will have $20 million budget |
Two new adaptations for you today, starting with
Erich Maria Remarque's legendary classic
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT which will be turned into a German language film directed by
Edward Berger with
Daniel Bruhl in the ensemble cast.
One of the most famous German novels of all time follows three
youngsters who voluntarily enlist in the German army during WW1. Full of
excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a
war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the
soul destroying horror of war. Their preconceptions about the enemy and
the rights and wrongs of the conflict crumble. On the countdown to
Armistice, the novel’s protagonist must carry on fighting until the end,
with no purpose other than to satisfy the top brass’s desire to end the
war on a German offensive.
SAM MENDES TO ADAPT
THE BEAUTIFUL RUINS NOVEL
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| Sam Mendes will only produce the adaptation |
Meanwhile,
Sam Mendes who is currently scoring all kinds of awards with his own WW1 movie 1917 has chosen
Jess Walter's book
BEAUTIFUL RUINS as his next production, but he will not direct it himself. As 'Deadline' reports, the book is set in an Italian seaside village off the Ligurian Sea in 1962. There a charming young man runs a hotel with no guests, until one day an American starlet, fresh from the set of Cleopatra, appears and captures his heart. Five decades later in Hollywood, a jaded assistant to a powerhouse producer gets caught up in the magic of his story, and takes it upon herself to find a happy ending.
