Richard Gere & Diana Silvers To Star In Edward Zwick’s ‘Asymmetry’
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Gere (fairly girl) and Diana Silvers (Booksmart) have been set to star in Oscar winner Edward Zwick‘s romantic drama Asymmetrywhich is predicated on Lisa Halliday’s acclaimed 2018 novel of the identical identify.
Halliday collaborated with Zwick (The Last Samurai) and Marshall Herskovitz on the screenplay, with Zwick and Herskovitz of the Bedford Falls Company producing alongside Clay Pecorin of Rainmaker Films and FilmNation Entertainment. FilmNation and Rainmaker are co-financing.
FilmNation will launch worldwide gross sales on the upcoming Cannes market and co-rep home rights with CAA Media Finance Group.
Asymmetryper the logline, tells the story of a younger editorial assistant in New York, Alice (Silvers), who comes upon world-renowned 70-year-old creator Ezra (Gere) in Central Park someday. Their one second of eye contact sparks a connection that leads them each down a life-changing rabbit gap, the place they create a personal world only for two. Ezra, well-known for his audacious work, finds somebody with whom he may be brazenly susceptible, and Alice finds the braveness to discover her personal aspirations as a author. Until it’s all put in danger when their secret relationship is uncovered.
The New Yorker known as the ebook “a literary phenomenon” and the New York Times included it within the listing of “15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.” Barack Obama included it in his listing of finest books from 2018.
Halliday, creator and co-writer, stated “It has been a pleasure and a privilege to work with Ed and Marshall on transposing Alice and Ezra’s story for the screen. I am enormously grateful to them for their humor, ingenuity, courage, compassion and dedication.”
Zwick, identified for producing Oscar winner Shakespeare In Love and for steering films together with Legends of the Fall, The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond and Jack Reacher: Never Go Backstated: “Like so many others I was charmed by Lisa’s book, not just because it’s emotional, insightful, and very funny, but because it’s about two people who discover that what the world calls asymmetry can in fact have another name: love.” The movie is the veteran director’s first in eight years.
Stacey Snider, FilmNation Entertainment Chief Creative Officer, and Clay Pecorin, Rainmaker Films co-founder and companion, added: “Asymmetry tells an unconventional love story that explores an improbable connection between two people at very different stages in their lives, which challenges their — and our — preconceptions about love and power.”
FilmNation may also be on the cannes market with Jeremy Strong starrer The Passengerwhich marks director Magnus Von Horn’s English-language debut.
Zwick is repped by CAA and Yorn, Levine. Gere is repped by WME and Hirsch Wallerstein. Silvers is repped by WME, Entertainment 360 and Jackoway Austen. Halliday is repped by The Gernert Company and CAA.
