Coens to Adapt Chabon's Yiddish Policemen's Union

[Carmine Falcone]

Coens to Adapt Chabon's Yiddish Policemen's Union
Source: Variety February 12, 2008


Variety says that the No Country for Old Men team of Joel and Ethan Coen and producer Scott Rudin will transfer another Pulitzer Prize-winning author's work into a film.

Columbia Pictures has acquired screen rights to the best-selling Michael Chabon novel "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," with the Coens writing, directing and producing with Rudin.

Chabon sets up a contemporary scenario where Jewish settlers are about to be displaced by U.S. government's plans to turn the frozen locale of Sitka, Alaska, over to Alaskan natives. Against this backdrop is a noir-style murder mystery in which a rogue cop investigates the killing of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy who might be the messiah.

The Coens will turn their attention to the book after they shoot A Serious Man for Working Title and Focus.

I'll watch ANYTHING the Coens make. And this one sounds...absurd.

And they better keep that title. Anybody here read the book?

 

[Hunter Rider]

When i saw the title i was " " but then i read the plot, sounds awesome. t:

 

[Carmine Falcone]

When i saw the title i was " " but then i read the plot, sounds awesome. t:

That's why they should keep it.

The Coens have some nice sounding projects lined up:
Burn After Reading
A Serious Man
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
And an, apparantely, VERY violent western.

And I still have to see No Country For Old Men.

 

[Hunter Rider]

That's why they should keep it.

The Coens have some nice sounding projects lined up:
Burn After Reading
A Serious Man
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
And an, apparantely, VERY violent western.

And I still have to see No Country For Old Men.

I think they will, it's very them. t:

Burn After Reading sounds great and i am intrigued by their western.

Damn dude, when is it out in Dutchland ?

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Damn dude, when is it out in Dutchland ?

This Thursday, I think I'll see it Sunday though. Can't wait.

 

[Compi716]

Nice. I really enjoyed the book, and I'm sure it will make a good movie.

I'm still waiting for an 'Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' movie, though.

 

[tzarinna]

I'm interested.