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It is not a common occurrence to see a playwright to take over main screenwriting duties, but that isn’t much of a concern for the folks producing the picture for Focus Features. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Roy Lee and Doug Davison’s Vertigo Entertainment have hired Jessica Goldberg to pen the remake.
Since Walker Left is set in Tennessee and New York, the story tracks the lives of a mother and daughter whose one joy comes from the regular letters sent to them from the family’s adored son, Walker. When the daughter finds out that Walker has suddenly died, she tries to conceal the truth from her mother, changing the course of their lives forever. Released by Zeitgeist Films in 2004, Since Otar Left (read my review here) was a brilliant little foreign language pic using much of the same storyline as mentioned above except here the film featured three Georgian women–strong-willed matriarch Eka, her long-suffering daughter Marina (Nino Khomassouridze) and rebellious granddaughter Ada.
Vertigo’s Sonny Mallhi brought the project to Focus and will executive produce. Goldberg is a graduate of New York’s Juilliard school and she wrote about a half dozen plays (Affair Play, Good Thing, The Hologram Theory, The Hunger Education, Katzman And The Mayor, Refuge and Stuck) – most of these feature characters breed in contemporary Americana or tied to middle America.
