John Crowley, the Irish film director who achieved such huge success with Brooklyn, is to adapt another well known work of fiction for his next movie project.
He's to direct the screen adaptation of Donna Tartt’s 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Goldfinch. Events in the book take place over two decades and follows a 13-year-old boy who loses his mother in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He is taken in by a wealthy family and eventually is drawn into the art underworld through a painting which he has stolen.
The script has already been written by Oscar nominee Peter Straughan who wrote the screenplay for Tinker Taylor Solider Spy.
Crowley made a huge impact with his adaptation of Colm Toibín's award winning novel, Brooklyn which was nominated for three Oscars including Best Film, Best Actress (Saoirse Ronan) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Nick Hornby).
Previously he was best know for his work as the director of the comedy Intermission, which starred Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy and he also picked up a Best Director BAFTA for the Channel 4 drama, Boy A, which was also written by Mark O'Rowe.
Crowley, who's also an established stage director and Tony nominee, will first though direct Cate Blanchett in her Broadway debut early next year in The Present, a reimagining of Chekhov’s first play. As if that wasn't enough he's also set to work on an adaptation of John Banville's noir crime-novel. The Black-Eyed Blonde, after the project received funding from the Irish Film Board.
