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Nicholas Hoult will star as JD Salinger in the biopic Rebel in the Rye with Danny Strong directing from his own screenplay. The script was adapted from the Kenneth Slawenski biography JD Salinger: A Life. Black Label Media is financing with Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill producing alongside Bruce Cohen, Jason Shuman, and Danny Strong. Bloom will introduce Rebel in the Rye to foreign buyers at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival, while CAA is representing the North American rights. The movie will explore the life and mind of the secretive author and tell the story of the birth of The Catcher in the Rye. The story will explore his rebellious youth, the bloody front lines of World War 2, enduring great love and terrible loss, a life of rejection to the pages of The New Yorker and his writers block which led to a spiritual awakening. The Catcher in the Rye is a classic coming of age story which continues to make a significant impression six generations later, said Alex Walton of Bloom. The world has long been fascinated with JD Salinger, who the talented Nicholas Hoult will bring to life, in this enigmatic role. Strong is known best for creating the series Empire. His screenplay credits include The Butler, the two The Hunger Games: Mockingjay films and the HBO films Recount and Game Change. Hoults credits include Mad Max: Fury Road and X-Men: Days of Future Passed. He also stars in the upcoming sci-fi romance Equals opposite Kristen Stewart, Guy Pearce and Jacki Weaver. The film, directed by Drake Doremus, will have its world premiere in the international competition section at the Venice Film Festival and will have its North American premiere in the Special Presentations program at the Toronto Film Festival. The Weinstein Company announced in 2013 that it was working with Shane Salerno on developing a feature film adaptation of Salernos documentary about the author with a focus on Salingers life between his military service in World War II and the 1951 publication of Catcher in the Rye. Salerno began working on the documentary in 2004. Salinger died in 2010. The documentary grossed $650,000 for TWC in 2013. |
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