Charlie Kaufman

EW has confirmed that Catherine Keener and her Synecdoche, New York director Charlie Kaufman will pair up for the first  

Charlie Kaufman will write the screenplay for The Knife of Never Letting Go. The Synecdoche, New York scribe has signed on to work on Lionsgate's adaptation of Patrick Ness's 'Chaos Walking' trilogy, reports Deadline. The young adult series is set on a ...  

Lionsgate wants a new book-based picNow that The Hunger Games has lived up to its potential, Lionsgate is kicking off the search to find another book-based franchise that offers a similarly rich vein of source material. The company thinks it might have a possibility in Patrick Ness’ young-adult focused Chaos Walking series, and has picked an interesting person to adapt it: Charlie Kaufman.Ness’ series – which, like all good YA series these...  

Lionsgate has announced, through Deadline , plans to adapt the Patrick Ness Chaos Walking trilogy of novels for the screen. What's more, they've attached screenwriting auteur Charlie Kaufman ( Being John Malkovich , Adaptation ) to provide the screenplay for the first book, The Knife of Never Letting Go . Released in 2008, that book is officially described as follows: Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown. But Prentisstown isn...  

Time to give Lionsgate a round of applause. The studio is already preparing for the days when The Hunger Games is over, and one YA property being groomed as the Next Big Thing is the Patrick Ness series Chaos Walking, about a dystopian future in which all human thought is made audible, leading to great [...]  

Not content to have The Hunger Games and Ender's Game already, apparently, Lionsgate continues to hoard enough dystopian young-adult fiction to survive any post-apocalyptic contingency (scenarios that involve surviving by somehow using stories where tough kids best autocrats and/or aliens, anyway). Its latest acquisition is the Patrick Ness series Chaos Walking, and—perhaps as a response to the collective...  

In the wake of Hunger Games success, Lionsgate Entertainment acquired the film rights to the young-adult fantasy series, Patrick Ness‘ Chaos Walking trilogy. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman will adapt the first book, The Knife of Never ...  

When we think of actors most likely to be in a musical, Jack Black, Steve Carell, Nicholas Cage, Kevin Kline and Elizabeth Banks don't initially come to mind, but a musical is exactly the project they've all signed on for. Charlie Kaufman's new ...  

When you're kicking off a new franchise, calling Charlie Kaufman seems to be as outside-the-box as Hollywood thinking could possibly be. However, if you're a studio looking for underlying material to support a new franchise, buying a young-adult series set ...  

The main characters are a boy named Todd Hewitt and a mysterious foreign girl named Viola. The series has received many awards, with "Monsters of Men" winning the Carnegie Medal. Deadline seems to think that Lionsgate hopes the "Chaos Walking ...  

I'm a big fan of Patrick Ness' YA trilogy Chaos Walking, which imagines a world in which men's thoughts are audible, while women's thoughts remain secret, and then gets fascinating mileage out of exploring how different communities might address such a gender imbalance—some men learn tricks to disguise their thoughts, some towns segregate by gender, and some find it easier to get rid of the womenfolk altogether. (Plus: clever...  

If you need your fix of the existential stylings of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Synecdoche, New York” filmmaker Charlie Kaufman, you may still be waiting a little while for his movie-musical “Frank or Francis.” Luckily, there’s another project on the horizon that should more than grab your attention. According to Deadline, Kaufman has just closed the deal for his first novel under Grand Central Publishing, with the...  

Lionsgate are making sure they aren't caught with their pants down when "The Hunger Games" series inevitably comes to an end. Even though the first film is still in theaters, they aren't wasting any time in making sure they have another big hit franchise to keep the blockbuster money train going once "Mockingjay" brings the adventures of Katniss to a close. And the answer to Suzanne Collins seems to be Patrick Ness, with Lionsgate are hoping...  

Not content to warp brains solely through the medium of film, Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) has signed a book deal with Grand Central Publishing. The novel's plot is completely unknown so far, but that may remain the case once you've read the whole thing twice anyway. It's not clear how the writing will shake out alongside Kaufman's sophomore directorial effort, Frank or Francis...  

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