Spielberg Interested in A Steady Rain Movie

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=80084

Source: ComingSoon.net
July 21, 2011

Real Steel star Hugh Jackman broke the news this morning to ComingSoon.net that Steven Spielberg is looking at adapting the Broadway play "A Steady Rain" into a movie. The play, written by Keith Huff, starred Jackman and Daniel Craig and ran on Broadway for 12 weeks.

"A Steady Rain" focuses on two Chicago policemen who inadvertently return a Vietnamese boy to a cannibalistic serial killer who claims to be the child's uncle. When he later becomes the man's latest victim, the lifelong friendship of the two men is threatened when it becomes clear someone must bear responsibility for their egregious failure to assess the situation accurately.

Jackman said a writer is on board. We presume that Spielberg would want both Jackman and Craig to reprise their roles on the big screen.

Something tells me the story would be altered.

 

[danoyse]

I saw the play twice, and the part about the boy is a major plot point, so it would have to be in there. On stage, it was the two of them telling the story, and it was just explained what happened to the boy, nothing was actually shown. It was loosely based on something that happened to one of Jeffrey's Dahmer's victims, who escaped and made it to the cops - who wound up returning the kid to Dahmer.

Incidentally, they were just up to the scene where they were explaining what happened to the kid when the infamous cell phone went off.

The play was really about this toxic relationship between these two cops, who'd known each other all of their lives, and how one went on a self-destruct after an incident that he basically caused in the first place, which led to the incident with the boy, and things just got worse from there.

It does not end well.

 

[bullets]

It sounds interesting. Jackman needs better film roles so hopefully this works out.

 

[Sawyer]

Spielberg seems to be taking alot of inspirations from stage works lately, between this and War Horse.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Sounds like a great premise that Spielberg will be able to do justice.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Spielberg loves theater. He has always wanted to direct a play or direct an adaptation of a play for the screen. He just hasn't had anything that he would go out and direct yet.

Anyway, I'm not surprised Danoyse responded first. But this sounds like it could be awesome.

 

[kvz5]

How many movies are on his plate now?

I like the sounds of this though...

 

[danoyse]

Spielberg loves theater. He has always wanted to direct a play or direct an adaptation of a play for the screen. He just hasn't had anything that he would go out and direct yet.

Anyway, I'm not surprised Danoyse responded first. But this sounds like it could be awesome.

Of course!

I've been hearing this would be a movie since it left Broadway, which was almost two years ago. I have to imagine it's still a ways off yet, if it's seriously happening at all. Wolverine starts in October and it looks like Hugh is doing Les Miserables (my favorite musical!) after that, which is supposed to start shooting in February.

It would be much different than the play, since that was basically Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig bouncing monologues off each other.

And Hugh got to drop an impressive number of f-bombs in the play as well. The play opened with the two of them arguing over how the Neilsen box works, and when Joey (Craig) corrects him, Denny (Jackman) responds with "What the **** do you know, you ****in' Mc?!"

Btw, Daniel Craig's American accent is freakishly good.