Imogen Poots has joined Ethan Hawke and Synecdoche, New York duo Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener in Yaron Zilberman’s feature debut, A Late Quartet. We believe Poot replaces the once attached Olivia Thirlby as the youngest member of the quartet. It’s still unclear whether Beginners pair Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer are still attached at this point. Poots will next be seen in Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre and Craig Gillespie’s Fright Night.
Gist: Scripted by Zilberman and Seth Grossman, this 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.
Worth Noting: Zilberman made his filmmaking debut with Watermarks, the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. It was founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athletes.
Do We Care?: Anytime a new filmmaker commences his career with such a stellar cast of players you know that there is something interesting brewing in that screenplay. Consider us extremely curious.
