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Ben Affleck to Direct Bunker Hill for Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. has closed a deal for the rights to Nathaniel Philbrick’s upcoming book Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution as a potential vehicle for Argo director Ben Affleck. Here’s the book’s official description from the author’s website.
“Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish vigilantes. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts residents have warily maneuvered around each other until April 19, when violence finally erupts at Lexington and Concord. In June, however, with the city cut off from supplies by a British blockade and Patriot militia poised in siege, skirmishes give way to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill. It would be the bloodiest battle of the Revolution to come, and the point of no return for the rebellious colonists. Philbrick brings a fresh perspective to every aspect of the story. He finds new characters, and new facets to familiar ones. The real work of choreographing rebellion falls to a thirty-three year old physician named Joseph Warren who emerges as the on-the-ground leader of the Patriot cause and is fated to die at Bunker Hill. Others in the cast include Paul Revere, Warren’s fianc the poet Mercy Scollay, a newly recruited George Washington, the reluctant British combatant General Thomas Gage and his more bellicose successor William Howe, who leads the three charges at Bunker Hill and presides over the claustrophobic cauldron of a city under siege as both sides play a nervy game of brinkmanship for control.With passion and insight, Philbrick reconstructs the revolutionary landscape-geographic and ideological-in a mesmerizing narrative of the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America.”
If Ben Affleck finalizes a deal to direct, it will mark a return “home,” of sorts, to his native Boston, which the actual town of Bunker Hill is just outside of. No production schedule was given. The filmmaker will next direct Live by Night, an adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel of the same name.
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It’s like Ben Affleck WANTS to be our favorite actor/director or something.
Other actor/directors: here are our summer catalogs, so you can pick out your next project.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/a3928db0fe2c2055bef512cc8d26402a/tumblr_mjw3ubWbKG1qfss0oo1_500.jpg)
Ben Affleck to Direct Bunker Hill for Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. has closed a deal for the rights to Nathaniel Philbrick’s upcoming book Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution as a potential vehicle for Argo director Ben Affleck. Here’s the book’s official description from the author’s website.
“Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish vigilantes. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts residents have warily maneuvered around each other until April 19, when violence finally erupts at Lexington and Concord. In June, however, with the city cut off from supplies by a British blockade and Patriot militia poised in siege, skirmishes give way to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill. It would be the bloodiest battle of the Revolution to come, and the point of no return for the rebellious colonists. Philbrick brings a fresh perspective to every aspect of the story. He finds new characters, and new facets to familiar ones. The real work of choreographing rebellion falls to a thirty-three year old physician named Joseph Warren who emerges as the on-the-ground leader of the Patriot cause and is fated to die at Bunker Hill. Others in the cast include Paul Revere, Warren’s fianc the poet Mercy Scollay, a newly recruited George Washington, the reluctant British combatant General Thomas Gage and his more bellicose successor William Howe, who leads the three charges at Bunker Hill and presides over the claustrophobic cauldron of a city under siege as both sides play a nervy game of brinkmanship for control.With passion and insight, Philbrick reconstructs the revolutionary landscape-geographic and ideological-in a mesmerizing narrative of the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America.”If Ben Affleck finalizes a deal to direct, it will mark a return “home,” of sorts, to his native Boston, which the actual town of Bunker Hill is just outside of. No production schedule was given. The filmmaker will next direct Live by Night, an adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel of the same name.
It’s like Ben Affleck WANTS to be our favorite actor/director or something.
Other actor/directors: here are our summer catalogs, so you can pick out your next project.
One of my Penguin shelves.
Kristopher Jansma just swept through the office to sign a couple hundred books first thing on a Friday morning, like a motherflipping champion.
Are you in the tri-state area? Do you like Brooklyn and also good literature, or maybe you just like appearing as though you like Brooklyn and good literature by hanging out in places where books and Brooklynites are?
Then you should definitely come to the launch for THE UNCHANGEABLE SPOTS OF LEOPARDS: March 28th, 7 PM, powerHouse Arena, Dumbo (Brooklyn). There will be white wine and whiskey, so you socially awkwards* will have something to hold all night.
* this is a literary event, so that’d be everyone—us included
Charming: houses built of books by Dutch artist Frank Halmans, a fine addition to other outstanding book sculpture concepts.
With each new gif, we become more convinced that Lisa Simpson is our cartoon twin.
(Source: midsummer-nightmarez)
Penguin - The Original 10.
