EXCLUSIVE: Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn (Proof) has been tapped to write down a brand new draft of One other Spherical, the English-language remake of Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar-winning Danish drama from 2020, which has Chris Rock on board to direct.
Rock joined the challenge in January, as we have been first to report. On the time, he had a draft in hand from Stuart Blumberg however was searching for one other author with which to accomplice. We’re informed Auburn landed the job after a protracted search, beating out possibly 200 scribes within the course of.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Approach Productions secured the remake rights to One other Spherical shortly after the movie landed the Finest Worldwide Characteristic prize on the Academy Awards. We’re informed that the challenge is selecting up steam now that Auburn is concerned, although Rock did simply signal on to direct and star in Misty Inexperienced, a Hollywood drama for which he wrote the script, in November. So how quickly we’d hear about additional developments on One other Spherical is just not but clear. Launched to consumers on the American Movie Market, Misty Inexperienced is simply the newest movie Rock has eyed to direct, on the heels of a Common-based adaptation of King: A Life, the Jonathan Eig e-book about Martin Luther King Jr. Pic was described by our sources as a up to date story of Hollywood extra and inequality.
One other Spherical, in the meantime, watches as 4 highschool lecturers devour alcohol every day to see the way it impacts their social {and professional} lives. Vinterberg directed the darkly comedic drama from his script written with Tobias Lindholm, with Mads Mikkelsen within the lead. Along with the Oscar, the movie was acknowledged with a BAFTA and quite a few European Movie Awards, together with Finest Movie, Finest Director, Finest Actor, and Finest Screenwriter.
Brad Weston will produce the remake for Makeready, alongside DiCaprio for Appian Approach. Exec producers embrace Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jorgensen, and Kasper Dissing.
Auburn is well-known for his play Proof, which gained the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Finest Play, and was tailored right into a 2005 drama, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Hope Davis, by Miramax. Taking up quite a few different high-level studio jobs over the previous couple of years, Auburn additionally wrote The Lake Home, the romance starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves, for Warner Bros.
Auburn is repped by Verve, supervisor Wealthy Freeman of Code Leisure, and legal professional David Matlof of Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum.
