Ethan Hawke is the First to Sign for Zilberman’s ‘A Late Quartet’

After making his debut with the docu film Watermarks, about a group of Jewish swimmers who escaped the Nazis and meet 60 plus years after forming their defiant sports club, Yaron Zilberman is now moving ahead with his fiction feature debut. Penned by Zilberman and Seth Grossman (The Elephant King), the screenplay has been generating enough buzz that several A-listers are currently attached to the project and Ethan Hawke is the first to join A Late Quartet.

The drama centers on a quartet whose members have performed together for 25 years and have to adjust to one of them retiring due to Parkinson’s disease. Hawke will portray the second violinist whose desire for more solos leads him to have an affair with his jogging partner, leaving him remorseful and saddened by the state of his marriage.

The actor just wrapped Pawel Pawlikowski’s long awaited return, The Woman in the Fifth – opposite Kristin Scott Thomas and Joanna Kulig, and must be only a couple of years away from completing the ambitious Linklater more than a decade long project entitled Boyhood: Year 7.