Variety announced recently that Philipp Meyer’s critically acclaimed fiction debut, American Rust, will be adapted for film by Walter Salles and Jose Rivera. That’s the same writer/director duo who worked on The Motorcycle Diaries and are just finishing up work on the film version of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (read our review of Oscar Wao here).
Scott Stuber, whose most recent project was the Vince Vaughn movie Couples Retreat (about the furthest thing from American Rust we can imagine!) bought the rights and will produce.
Book-to-film is always a risky transition, but the quiet, compelling American Rust, which follos two friends who both long to escape their dying Pennsylvania mining town, might make the jump better than most. If you’ve read the book, what do you think?
I think American Rust will be a good film. It was my favorite book of the year, so far.
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