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September 12, 2006
Come and see: Meirelles' Blindness
Blindness is looking good for City of God's Fernando Meirelles, reports Adam Dawtrey in Variety. It's courtesy of Canada's writer Don McKellar and producer Niv Fichman. It's a $25m budgeted Brazilian-Canadian co-prod, an English-language pic adapted by McKellar from "the 1995 novel by Portuguese Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago... a philosophical thriller about an epidemic of blindness that sweeps through an unnamed contemporary city and pushes society to the brink of breakdown" to be shot summer 2007 in Toronto and Sao Paulo, Meirelles' hometown." Of course, McKellar's in the cast; Fichman produces with Simon Channing-Williams and Gail Egan of London-based Pot Boiler Films, who produced Meirelles' The Constant Gardener.
Posted by Ray Pride at September 12, 2006 11:44 PM
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