Manchester City and Arsenal remain engaged in a fascinating Premier League title race as we head into the final stretch of an engrossing season.
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EXCLUSIVE: Sony’s 3000 Pictures has set Justin Kuritzkes to adapt City on Fire, the first of a bestselling novel trilogy by Don Winslow that is being developed as a star vehicle for Austin Butler.
Kuritzkes is hot off the Luca Guadanino-directed Zendaya-starrer Challengers, and Butler is producing along with David Heyman of Heyday Films and Shane Salerno and The Story Factory.
After Challengers, Kuritzkes adapted Guadagnino’s next film Queer, starring Daniel Craig and based on William S. Burroughs’ 1985 novel. In 2019, Kuritzkes’ debut novel, Famous People, was published by Henry Holt and Co.
3000’s Elizabeth Gabler and Marisa Paiva are overseeing the project for the studio, and Drew Reed was instrumental in tracking the book series.
Winslow’s swan song trilogy – the final installment City in Ruins is just landing on the bestseller lists after being published by William Morrow – is a modern retelling of the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Greek tragic dramas set in the world of contemporary crime. The novel was acquired a year before the publication of first installment City on Fire in a mid-7 figure outright purchase in 2021. City of Dreams followed, and all three books have received superb reviews. Winslow considers the trilogy to be his last book writing effort, though many of his bestsellers will live on, as series and film adaptations are in the works all over town. He’ll also likely write short stories, novellas, scripts and hopefully the occasional guest column for Deadline.
Kuritzkes will start at the beginning, a struggle between two criminal empires — one Irish, the other Italian — that control all of New England, until a modern-day Helen of Troy tears them apart and starts a brutal war. Butler will play the
Manchester City and Arsenal remain engaged in a fascinating Premier League title race as we head into the final stretch of an engrossing season.
Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events SPOILER ALERT: This article contains plot details for “Challengers,” now playing in theaters. Josh O’Connor never had a churro until he shot “Challengers.” The British actor and his co-star Mike Faist enjoy the fried doughy treat in one of the film’s most suggestive scenes. In short, Patrick (O’Connor) is visiting his girlfriend Tashi (Zendaya) and his best friend Art (Faist) at Stanford when the two young men catch up in a cafeteria. They’re sitting face-to-face as they devour the churros.
Manchester City will already have an eye on their next Premier League fixture this weekend.
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A year ago, trades announced that Oscar-nominee Austin Butler (“Dune: Part Two“) would be leading a feature film adaptation of the famous Don Winslow crime saga novel “City On Fire” (No, not the similarly-titled Chow Yun-Fat movie that inspired Quentin Tarantino‘s “Reservoir Dogs“). A potential franchise starter for Sony, the crimed dra awould explore two criminal empires, Irish and Italian syndicates, that control New England and has been compared to the scope of something on the level of “The Godfather.” It’s been a long minute since we’ve heard an update, but Deadline reports the project has landed an impressive screenwriter to tackle the script.
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