Fresh off the premiere of his Sundance-selected drama The Music Never Stopped, director/producer Jim Kohlberg isn’t wasting much time securing his sophomore project. THR reports that the feature film adaptation rights to Mary Glickman’s debut novel, Home in the Morning, have been optioned and Jeffery Sharp (Boys Don’t Cry) who is already close to the source material as he handled the e-publication of the novel, is also slated to executive produce the film.
Gist: Glickman’s debut novel centers on Jackson, a Jewish boy coming of age during the civil rights movement in the segregated Old South of the 1960s. The story follows Jackson from his youth to adulthood when he becomes a successful lawyer. The novel touches on several themes including love, race, prejudice and family and shows how a man stuck in the middle deals with the obstacles life throws at him.
Worth Noting: Kohlberg’s debut film which was picked up by Roadside Attractions prior to Sundance — it receives a release next week.
Do We Care?: We weren’t big on the J.K. Simmons, Julia Ormond, Cara Seymour and Lou Taylor Pucci pic – our own Sean Glass mentioned that the film made some good musical choices but that these sort of intimate days of yore “are not even a well-oiled version of the past, just repackaging of it.”
