Release Date: 2012-09-07
NYC and/or LA Release
Distributors: CBS Films
Directors: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal
Actors : Ben Barnes, Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, J.K. Simmons, Jeremy Irons, John Hannah, Nora Arnezeder, Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana
Film Genre(s): Drama, Thriller
United States
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









"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."










