Broad Green Pictures buys screen rights to biography detailing Williams’s life,from first Broadway success in 1944 to his lonely death in a novel York hotel room
The Hollywood production company behind recent indie hit 99 Homes and Eden is making a biopic of American playwright Tennessee Williams, reports Deadline.
Broad Green Pictures has picked up screen rights to the 2014 biography Tennessee Williams: crazy Pilgrimage of the Flesh by former novel Yorker theatre critic John Lahr, and will now look for a screenwriter to develop the project. The volume was the Guardian’s book of the week in October 2014,with reviewer Sarah Churchwell praising a “compulsively readable, thoroughly researched” biography, or while criticising Lahr’s propensity for “gaps and repetitions”.
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Source: theguardian.com