Posted on 01/15/2019 2:43:06 PM PST by EdnaMode
Imperative Entertainment, the production banner behind the Clint Eastwood hit The Mule, has acquired the rights to American Dirt, the Mexican migrant drama novel by Jeanine Cummins.
Charles Leavitt, the scribe who penned the Leonardo DiCaprio drama Blood Diamond, has been tapped to write the adaptation, which will be produced by Imperative’s Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas.
Mixing ripped-from-the-homepage headlines with thriller elements, the story centers on a Mexican mother and son who are the sole survivors after cartel drug traffickers kill her husband and family. The pair undertake an arduous journey to America and safety, fleeing the cartel while also enduring the harsh conditions of the migrant trail.
Dirt was the object of a massive publishing bidding war when nine book houses fought over it. Flatiron Books came out on top of the Dirt pile, paying a seven-figure sum. The book, which is slated to be published in 2020, also has been sold to eight foreign territories.
Imperative’s Mule, which stars Eastwood and Bradley Cooper, has made over $90 million domestically since its Dec. 14, 2018, opening. The company was also behind All the Money in the World, another true-life story, which netted an Oscar nomination for star Christopher Plummer. The company is betting big on book adaptations and has lined up big talent such as Angeline Jolie for The Kept and DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon.
Leavitt is a longtime writer who counts Warcraft: The Beginning and Ron Howard’s 2015 whaling drama In the Heart of the Sea amongst his credits. He is repped by Paradigm and Lichter Grossman.
Cummins was repped in the deal by ICM Partners on behalf of Sterling Lord Literistic.
Ping.
Kids we need a whole orchestra of violins for this one...
This sounds like the perfect movie for me to miss on a Saturday afternoon. Heck, I will probably miss it again on Sunday.
Should be entitled “American Freebies - Come And Get Them”
Invaders.
Barbarian invasion.
Another DOA movie. Wonder how many of these they can afford to make?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest changed laws and created homelessness. The China Syndrome killed the growth of nuclear power in America. An Inconvenient Truth made Al Gore a billionaire. They keep trying.
conservatives are on an island all by ourselves. Even if the dems do something blatantly wrong or illegal it simply isn’t known to average joe six pack because they don’t report it. They put out their propaganda and it is repeated in the MSM and the schools and the more its repeated the more it becomes the truth. Just feels like we are floating without a paddle.
Keep your powder dry.
Another no talent obnoxious Hollywood slut.
“Blood Diamond” was a “redemption” flick, which has been a tawdry and clichéd form since Dickens did it in “A Christmas Carol.” Only talentless types resort to such a hackneyed vehicle now.
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