BREAKING: Scott Cooper Replacing Noah Baumbach As Director On THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN, McAdams And Thompson Join Cast.
Twitch has learned that Crazy Heart writer-director Scott Cooper is replacing Noah Baumbach as the director of The Emperor's Children. Baumbach scripted the adaptation of the novel by Claire Messud and had been attached to direct as well. Richard Gere and Keira Knightley has been attached to star when Baumbach was slated to direct but we have learned Rachel McAdams and Emma Thompson have now also joined the cast. Brian Grazer will produce at Imagine Entertainment. A spring 2012 start date is being eyed.
The shuffle is likely a result of scheduling issues for Baumbach who is currently in production on a documentary project and already slated to direct While We're Young - which he also wrote - with Jesse Eisenberg, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts in 2012. The shift raises questions about the status of Cooper's Out Of The Furnace - previously known as The Low Dweller - the project Cooper is attached to direct for Relativity.
The Emperor's Children is about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way--and not--in New York City. There is beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite--an "It" girl finishing her first book; the daughter of Murray Thwaite, celebrated intellectual and journalist--and her two closest friends from Brown, Danielle, a quietly appealing television producer, and Julius, a cash-strapped freelance critic. The delicious complications that arise among them become dangerous when Murray's nephew, Frederick "Bootie" Tubb, an idealistic college dropout determined to make his mark, comes to town. As the skies darken, it is Bootie's unexpected decisions--and their stunning, heartbreaking outcome--that will change each of their lives forever.
The shuffle is likely a result of scheduling issues for Baumbach who is currently in production on a documentary project and already slated to direct While We're Young - which he also wrote - with Jesse Eisenberg, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts in 2012. The shift raises questions about the status of Cooper's Out Of The Furnace - previously known as The Low Dweller - the project Cooper is attached to direct for Relativity.
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