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From Page to Screen: Dennis Lehane's The Given Day
June 20, 2008
Dennis Lehane's eagerly anticipated historical epic, Any Given Day, hasn't been published yet but already Hollywood has come calling.
Variety reports that Columbia Pictures has acquired rights to the novel, and
Spiderman director Sam Raimi will direct. HarperCollins will release the novel September 23. Look for our review in the August print issue of
Library Journal.
Hollywood certainly loves Boston's golden boy, having adapted two of his novels into acclaimed films,
Mystic River and
Gone, Baby Gone. And Martin Scorsese is in the process of filming
Shutter Island, now renamed
Ashcliffe, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
But did you know that Lehane had once written, directed, and produced an
independent film, Neighborhoods? Several years ago I went downtown to the Tribeca Film Center for a screening hosted by the author. I remember thinking the film, still a work in progress, wasn't half bad and showed promise. Unfortunately Lehane never found a distributor.
Posted by Wilda Williams on June 20, 2008 | Comments (2)
