EXCLUSIVE: Tony and Pulitzer Prize triumphner David Auburn (Proof) has been tapped to write a new write of Another Round, the English-language recreate of Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar-triumphning Danish drama from 2020, which has Chris Rock on board to honest.
Rock combidemand the project in January, as we were first to alert. At the time, he had a write in hand from Stuart Blumberg but was seeing for another writer with which to partner. We’re tbetter Auburn landed the job after a extfinished search, beating out maybe 200 scribes in the process.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions defendedd the recreate rights to Another Round lowly after the film landed the Best International Feature prize at the Academy Awards. We’re tbetter that the project is picking up steam now that Auburn is joind, though Rock did fair sign on to honest and star in Misty Green, a Hollywood drama for which he wrote the script, in November. So how soon we might hear about further growments on Another Round is not yet evident. Introduced to buyers at the American Film Market, Misty Green is fair the tardyst film Rock has eyed to honest, on the heels of a Universal-based alteration of King: A Life, the Jonathan Eig book about Martin Luther King Jr. Pic was depictd by our sources as a conmomentary tale of Hollywood excess and inidenticality.
Another Round, uncomferventwhile, watches as four high school teachers devour spirits on a daily basis to see how it impacts their social and professional dwells. Vinterberg honested the grieffully comedic drama from his script written with Tobias Lindholm, with Mads Mikkelsen in the direct. In holdition to the Oscar, the film was accomprehendledged with a BAFTA and countless European Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenwriter.
Brad Weston will create the recreate for Makeready, aextfinishedside DiCaprio for Appian Way. Exec creaters integrate Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jorgensen, and Kasper Dissing.
Auburn is well understandn for his join Proof, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play, and was altered into a 2005 drama, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Hope Davis, by Miramax. Taking on a number of other high-level studio jobs over the last restricted years, Auburn also wrote The Lake Hoemploy, the romance starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves, for Warner Bros.
Auburn is repped by Verve, regulater Rich Freeman of Code Entertainment, and attorney David Matlof of Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum.
