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Sundance Watch: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
[Posted by Tatiana Siegel]
Although the Sundance Film Festival won't unveil its full lineup until tomorrow, rumors are circulating that John Krasinski's helming debut, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, will be making the trek to Park City. The film, a passion project for The Office star, is significant because it marks the only bigscreen project ever derived from the sizable literary library of the late David Foster Wallace. Krasinski also wrote and starred in Hideous Men, which is based on a short story by Wallace, who committed suicide in September. Krasinski was editing the film, which he shot two years ago in New York, when he learned of the author's death.
Though the film, which also stars Bobby Cannavale, Max Minghella and Christopher Meloni, is the first Wallace project to hit the screen, it won't likely be the last. Producer Jason Kliot (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and recent Toronto fest hit American Swing) is developing Wallace's Infinite Jest, the author's most famous work, with Keith Bunin penning the screenplay.
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Posted by: bobo | December 03, 2008 at 03:37 PM