Fwd: Re: delillo-l The White Noise Motion Picture Event

[Richard Romeo]

Read it and weep foax
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>This just in today.
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>Latest Hollywood script deals
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>HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Disney-based production outfit
>Sonnenfeld/Josephson has nabbed a three-year option on Don
>DeLillo's seminal 1984 novel ``White Noise,'' beating out several other
>suitors in the process.
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>The dark comedy, which cemented DeLillo's literary reputation, revolves
>around a toxic disaster in a Midwestern burg. The
>main character, Jack Gladney, is a college professor who becomes
>addicted, along with everyone in town, to an experimental
>drug that sends him into a complex world where the real and unreal
>coexist.
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>``Noise,'' which won the National Book Award in 1985, has previously
>been set up at HBO and at James Brooks' Sony-based
>Gracie Films. DeLillo's magnum opus, ``Underworld,'' recently went to
>Scott Rudin at Paramount.
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>Sonnenfeld/Josephson principal Barry Sonnenfeld (``Men In Black'') will
>develop and direct ``White Noise.''
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