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If you were looking forward to some upbeat family films in 2007, independent producer Nick Wechsler is not your man. Instead he’s getting behind some serious family drama with And the Word Was and Reservation Road.
And the Word Was, the adaptation of the Bruce Bauman novel, is also backed by Volume One’s Gena Resnick and Dean Levitt. The story centers on “a grief-stricken emergency room physician who leaves New York for India after the death of his son in a Columbine-like massacre and searches for life’s meaning amid the poverty of New Delhi.” Reservation Road, a Focus feature with big names attached – Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino, is another book-to-screen family tear-jerker. An adaptation of the John Burnham Schwartz novel, the recently wrapped film also involves the loss of a son.
Optimistic And the Word Was is going to bring in serious talent, Wechsler has plenty of successes to give him that edge. Requiem for a Dream and Drugstore Cowboy are just a few of the now big-time producer’s award winners. Also in the works, Wechsler is working once agin with James Gray (The Yards with the upcoming We Own the Night.