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New project brings out the little ‘Boy’ in Parker

Published on July 11, 2007

After years of being attached to and developing The Ice at the Bottom of the World, Alan Parker is now turning his attention to producer Scott Rudin and Allison Owen’s film adaptation of a book that won the Whitbread Award for British children's literature.

Parker who last directed The Life of David Gale (a film that I often debate among peers who claim it is a superior film) is in negotiations to write and adapt the project. Miramax Films will distribute.

Based on the children's novel by Jamila Gavin, this is a story about teenage pregnancy, infanticide and slave-trading in 18th Century Georgian London, Coram Boy is a sprawling epic of Dickensian proportions. It follows the story of wealthy English estate heir who forsakes his fortune for music before fathering a love child.

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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).