SYNOPSIS

The story follows a famous author reading from his first and most aclaimed novel at a university reading. The novel written many years ago launched his career, it suspiciously tells the story of a younger writer who, at the peak of his literary success, discovers the price he must pay for having stolen another man’s work in order to have launched his own career.

PREVIEW NOTES

• Variety reports that Bradley Cooper has signed on to star in the pic. Jeremy Irons is in talks to co-star. Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal will direct. Michael Benaroya (of Benaroya Pictures) and Untitled Entertainment’s Laura Rister and Cassian Elwes. Benaroya, Animus Films’ Jim Young and Serena Films’ Tatiana Kelly will produce while Rister and Elwes are exec producing the pic. - 2011-02-09
• The production announced that Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde, Ben Barnes, John Hannah, J.K. Simmons, and Nora Arnezeder have joined the production. - 2011-06-02