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EXCLUSIVE: Richard Gere (Pretty Woman) and Diana Silvers (Booksmart) person been group to prima successful Oscar victor Edward Zwick‘s romanticist play Asymmetry, which is based connected Lisa Halliday’s acclaimed 2018 caller of nan aforesaid name.
Halliday collaborated pinch Zwick (The Last Samurai) and Marshall Herskovitz on nan screenplay, pinch Zwick and Herskovitz of nan Bedford Falls Company producing alongside Clay Pecorin of Rainmaker Films and FilmNation Entertainment. FilmNation and Rainmaker are co-financing.
FilmNation will motorboat world income astatine nan upcoming Cannes marketplace and co-rep home authorities pinch CAA Media Finance Group.
Asymmetry, per nan logline, tells nan communicative of a young editorial adjunct successful New York, Alice (Silvers), who comes upon world-renowned 70-year-old writer Ezra (Gere) successful Central Park 1 day. Their 1 infinitesimal of oculus interaction sparks a relationship that leads them some down a life-changing rabbit hole, wherever they create a backstage world conscionable for two. Ezra, celebrated for his audacious work, finds personification pinch whom he tin beryllium openly vulnerable, and Alice finds nan courageousness to research her ain aspirations arsenic a writer. Until it is each put astatine consequence erstwhile their concealed narration is exposed.
The New Yorker called nan book “a literate phenomenon” and nan New York Times included it successful nan database of “15 singular books by women that are shaping nan measurement we publication and constitute fabrication successful nan 21st century.” Barack Obama included it successful his database of champion books from 2018.
Halliday, writer and co-writer, said “It has been a pleasance and a privilege to activity pinch Ed and Marshall connected transposing Alice and Ezra’s communicative for nan screen. I americium enormously grateful to them for their humor, ingenuity, courage, compassion and dedication.”
Zwick, known for producing Oscar victor Shakespeare In Love and for directing movies including Legends of nan Fall, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, said: “Like truthful galore others I was charmed by Lisa’s book, not conscionable because it’s emotional, insightful, and very funny, but because it’s astir 2 group who observe that what nan world calls asymmetry tin successful truth person different name: love.”
Stacey Snider, FilmNation Entertainment Chief Creative Officer, and Clay Pecorin, Rainmaker Films co-founder and partner, added: “Asymmetry tells an unconventional emotion communicative that explores an improbable relationship betwixt 2 group astatine very different stages successful their lives, which challenges their — and our — preconceptions astir emotion and power.”
Zwick is repped by CAA and Yorn, Levine. Gere is repped by WME and Hirsch Wallerstein. Silvers is repped by WME, Entertainment 360 and Jackoway Austen.
