Josh Hutcherson To Star in Film Adaptation of Earnest Hemingway's ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES
Josh Hutcherson and Sabrina Impacciatore have joined the cast of the upcoming film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s Across the River and Into the Trees. They are joining the previously cast Liev Schreiber, Matilda De Angelis, Laura Morante and Giancarlo Giannini.
Schreiber will take on the role of Colonel Richard Cantwell, a character partially based on Hemingway’s friend Colonel Charles T. Lanham. In the novel, which was published in 1950, “Cantwell is duck hunting in Northern Italy during the closing days of World War II and dealing with a star-crossed romance with a much younger woman, having been damaged both physically and mentally during World War I and trying to come to terms with his own mortality.”
Producer Brian O’Shea, CEO of The Exchange, said in a statement: “Adding Josh to this internationally renowned cast is very exciting. His popularity and talent will help make this film even more valuable to our buyers.”
The film will be helmed by Paula Ortiz (The Bride) from a script being adapted by Peter Flannery (Inspector George Gently).
Here’s the description of the book:
In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Across the River and into the Trees, the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess. A poignant, bittersweet homage to love that overpowers reason, to the resilience of the human spirit, and to the worldweary beauty and majesty of Venice, Across the River and into the Trees stands as Hemingway's statement of defiance in response to the great dehumanizing atrocities of the Second World War.
It’s been a long time since I’ve read Across the River and Into the Trees, but there’s a decent team of talent attached to the adaptation to bring it to life.
Source: Variety