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DIRECTOR Walter Salles (pictured) and screenwriter Jose Rivera are re-uniting to bring acclaimed novel American Rust to the big screen.
The duo, who worked together on Che Guevara movie The Motorcycle Diaries, have been signed by Universal to adapt the debut novel by Philip Meyer, according to Variety.
The story follows two friends from a derelict Pennsylvanian mill town as they hit the road in search of a better life, only to encounter...
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While Steven Soderbergh released his epic-that-no-one-saw, “Che”, I found 2004’s “The Motorcycle Diaries” to be an intimate and compelling of Che Guevara before he became Che Guevara. It rarely felt like an origin story and it made Guevara’s tale one of “I succeeded and you didn’t because I was me and you are you.” The [...]
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The film will be based on Philipp Meyer's debut novel.
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The film will be based on Philipp Meyer's debut novel.
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The Motorcycle Diaries duo of Walter Salles and Jose Rivera will direct and write the script, respectively, for American Rust . Scott Stuber ( Couples Retreat , The Break-Up ) has acquired film rights to the debul novel from Philipp Meyer.
The story centers around two longtime friends from an economically depressed steel town in Pennsylvania whose dreams of escaping to California are dashed when they're implicated in a crime.
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