Exclusive: La-based Night Fox Entertainment has pacted with Playing With The Enemy author Gary W. Moore to finance and produce his upcoming 2015 novel The Final Service. The story follows Sandy Richards, a 40-year-old music teacher burdened by her damaged relationship with her father and her unfulfilled dreams, who gets an unexpected visit from an unfathomable source that shakes her belief system and changes her life forever. Moore will adapt his own book with author James Riordan (Break On Through, Stone). Night Fox is fully financing the feature film, which will likely shoot next summer, and is also eyeing additional projects based on Moore’s books.
“I am delighted to work with Night Fox Entertainment and look forward to a relationship that possibly moves beyond The Final Service,” said Moore, whose baseball-themed Playing With The Enemy is in its 17th printing with Penguin. “We are completely in sync artistically and feel...
“I am delighted to work with Night Fox Entertainment and look forward to a relationship that possibly moves beyond The Final Service,” said Moore, whose baseball-themed Playing With The Enemy is in its 17th printing with Penguin. “We are completely in sync artistically and feel...
- 10/10/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
From serious historical dramas to light Vince Vaughn comedies, we have an abundance of director news to share with you for your reading pleasure…The subject of World War II is one that director Volker Schlöndorff has revisited quite often throughout his work, and it looks like he’s going back to that well once again. He briefly mentioned the project when we spoke to him earlier this year at the Göteborg International Film Festival. The film, “Diplomacy,” tells the true story of a German officer who saved Paris from destruction, and it takes place on the day when Paris was liberated by the Allies. Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of Paris, was ordered by Adolf Hitler to blow up the city but chose not to thanks to the influence of the Swedish ambassador. [Variety] Speaking of WWII dramas, “In the Name of the Father” director Jim Sheridan is...
- 5/9/2013
- by Ken Guidry
- The Playlist
There are sports movies. There are war movies. Playing with the Enemy will be both, and it’s set to be directed by Jim Sheridan, who has worked in both genres before.
Sheridan will direct the film and re-write its script, EW has confirmed. Deadline first reported the news.
The film is an adaptation of the 2006 book Playing with the Enemy by Gary W. Moore, about his father, Gene Moore, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers before joining the Navy in 1940. While stationed at a prisoner of war camp in Louisiana, he taught German POWs how to play baseball.
Several...
Sheridan will direct the film and re-write its script, EW has confirmed. Deadline first reported the news.
The film is an adaptation of the 2006 book Playing with the Enemy by Gary W. Moore, about his father, Gene Moore, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers before joining the Navy in 1940. While stationed at a prisoner of war camp in Louisiana, he taught German POWs how to play baseball.
Several...
- 5/2/2013
- by Emily Rome
- EW - Inside Movies
Filmmaker Jim Sheridan ("In America," "In the Name of the Father") has committed to rewrite and direct "Playing With The Enemy" at New Myth Entertainment.
Based on the Gary W. Moore book of the same name about his father, the story follows how 15-year-old Gene Moore was a baseball prodigy drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1940.
Moore joined the Navy and was stationed at an isolated P.O.W. camp in Louisiana. There, he taught German prisoners how to play baseball.
Sheridan, David Ranes and Tom De Santo are producing.
Source: Deadline...
Based on the Gary W. Moore book of the same name about his father, the story follows how 15-year-old Gene Moore was a baseball prodigy drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1940.
Moore joined the Navy and was stationed at an isolated P.O.W. camp in Louisiana. There, he taught German prisoners how to play baseball.
Sheridan, David Ranes and Tom De Santo are producing.
Source: Deadline...
- 5/2/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Deadline reports that writer/director Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In The Name Of The Father) is set to rewrite and direct the WWII drama Playing With The Enemy, based on the book by Gary W. Moore.
The book chronicles the story of the author’s father Gene Moore, a former baseball prodigy who joined the Navy and was eventually stationed at a Pow camp in Louisiana where he taught German prisoners how to play America’s favorite pastime. The story explores the relationship between the guards and prisoners at the height of the war as well as the dynamics of the relationship between the author and his father.
Sheridan has written some powerful screenplays in his time and on more than one occasion he’s worked with one of the best actors of all time, Daniel Day-Lewis.
Sheridan is expected to begin production on this film after he finishes his current project,...
The book chronicles the story of the author’s father Gene Moore, a former baseball prodigy who joined the Navy and was eventually stationed at a Pow camp in Louisiana where he taught German prisoners how to play America’s favorite pastime. The story explores the relationship between the guards and prisoners at the height of the war as well as the dynamics of the relationship between the author and his father.
Sheridan has written some powerful screenplays in his time and on more than one occasion he’s worked with one of the best actors of all time, Daniel Day-Lewis.
Sheridan is expected to begin production on this film after he finishes his current project,...
- 5/2/2013
- by Alex Corey
- LRMonline.com
Exclusive: Jim Sheridan, who made news earlier this week when he signed with Wme’s Robert Newman and Manage-Ment’s Dan Halsted, has just committed to rewrite and direct Playing With The Enemy for newly formed New Myth Entertainment. The film is based on the Gary W. Moore book of the same name, which he wrote about how his father put his baseball skills to use during WWII. After being drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers as a 15-year-old prodigy in 1940, Gene Moore joined the Navy and was stationed at a prisoner of war camp in Louisiana. There, he taught German prisoners of war how to play baseball. The film explores both the relationship between the German POWs and their American captors in the isolated camp at the height of the war, but also the relationship between Gene Moore and his son, to whom he is telling the story. New Myth Entertainment...
- 5/1/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Jim Sheridan, the man behind films like My Left Foot and In America , has signed on to helm an adaptation of Gary W. Moore's Playing with the Enemy , Deadline reports. The nonfiction book, published in 2006, is officially described as follows: It was true in the 1940's, and it is still true today: if you have talent, someone will notice. In Gene Moore.s case, that someone was the Brooklyn Dodgers. Gene Moore was a farm boy living with his family in Sesser, Illinois, a town so small even map makers ignored it. As a teenager, when he wasn.t in school or helping his Pop on the farm, slopping the hogs and doing other chores with his older brother Ward and five sisters, Gene was playing baseball with the guys on the town team. Some were twice his age. The older fellows...
- 5/1/2013
- Comingsoon.net
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