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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Pictures has closed a movie authorities woody to New York Times bestseller Playground by Richard Powers.
Plan B, Timothée Chalamet, and Brian Swardstrom are attached to produce. Nothing will hap until it’s developed, but Chalamet has first ace astatine starring arsenic nan cardinal character.
The Booker Prize-nominated Playground follows Todd Keane and his 2 champion friends from nan University of Illinois, done nan tech roar of Silicon Valley, to nan phosphate mined Polynesian land of Makatea. The communicative explores love, friendship, and nan accelerated advancement of artificial intelligence.
Coming disconnected nan 2 Oscar winners One Battle After Another, Warner Bros looks to person a beardown adjacent of nan twelvemonth coming pinch Chalamet successful Dune: Part III, nan Denis Villenueve-directed Legendary Entertainment film. Warner Bros, which releases nan movie December 18, conscionable dropped a teaser that looks epic. Chalamet is coming disconnected 2 consecutive Best Actor Oscar nominations, for Marty Supreme and nan Bob Dylan pic A Complete Unknown.
Plan B is coming disconnected Best Picture nominee F1 that starred partner Brad Pitt, and nan miniseries Adolescence, which won 8 Prime Time Emmy Awards.
Author Powers is simply a MacArthur Fellow and National Book Award recipient, pinch The Overstory earning him nan Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a Booker Prize shortlist spot successful 2018. Powers has been nominated for nan Booker Prize 4 times, astir precocious for Playground successful 2024. He’s been Booker nominated much times than immoderate surviving author.
Plan B is presently processing Powers’ Bewilderment with Black Bear.
Powers is represented by CAA and Melanie Jackson Agency. Plan B is represented by CAA. Chalamet is represented by UTA, Brian Swardstrom and Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown.
