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John Curran’s Next Film is Set in ‘Stone’

John Curran has queued up a side job set in Pittsburgh due to lense next month and starring Bobby De NIro. Casting and the producers behind the project will be announced shortly, but Production Weekly is the first to break the news that Curran will direct from a play written by Junebug writer Angus MacLachlan.

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Before setting out to direct Betsy and the Emperor (04/07/2009), John Curran has queued up a side job set in Pittsburgh due to lense next month and starring Bobby De NIro. Casting and the producers behind the project will be announced shortly, but Production Weekly is the first to break the news that Curran will direct from a play written by Junebug writer Angus MacLachlan. The pic would see De Niro would play a parole officer who develops a friendship with a teaching assistant (Sienna Miller‘s name was attached). The two characters become romantically linked and have a highly charged sexual relationship. The excellent Meryl Streep would play his unhappy wife.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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