"Rebel in the Rye"

[Magical Realist]

"Nicholas Hoult will star as J.D. Salinger in the biopic “Rebel in the Rye,” with Danny Strong directing from his own screenplay.

The script was adapted from the Kenneth Slawenski biography “J.D. Salinger: A Life.” Black Label Media is financing, with Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill producing alongside Bruce Cohen, Jason Shuman and Danny Strong.

Bloom will introduce “Rebel in the Rye” to foreign buyers at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival, while CAA is representing the North American rights.

The movie will explore the life and mind of the secretive author and tell the story of the birth of “The Catcher in the Rye.” The story will explore his rebellious youth, his experiences on the bloody front lines of World War II, enduring great love and terrible loss, a life of rejection to the pages of the New Yorker and his writer’s block — which led to a spiritual awakening.

“’The Catcher in the Rye’ is a classic coming-of-age story which continues to make a significant impression six generations later,” said Alex Walton of Bloom. “The world has long been fascinated with J.D. Salinger, whom the talented Nicholas Hoult will bring to life in this enigmatic role.”===========http://variety.com/2015/film/news/nichol...201581935/

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A bio of Salinger would be as close as they've ever been able to get to even filming inspirational elements behind "The Catcher the Rye". I'm surprised his legal reach from beyond the grave has not prevented that. And what happened to all those novels and stories he wrote during those decades of being a recluse, some which supposedly would be allowed to finally be published this or next year? Only Harper Lee frustrated her potential fans more with printed silence, but at least she allowed her [once] lone novel to be turned into a movie. (In all honesty, though, TCITR is one of those self-absorbed works that would be near-impossible to successfully adapt to the extroverted screen, anyway. And if the Mark David Chapman types ever had seen a movie version, they probably would have become so disillusioned that their self-appointed quests to assassinate "phony" celebrities / VIPs would have been aborted and thus mildly modified history.)