hollywoodreporter.com - 4/29/2008
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Liz Friedlander is attached to direct "I Am Charlotte Simmons," the first Tom Wolfe novel the author has optioned for the screen since 1987's "The Bonfire of the Vanities." Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment will handle financing and worldwide distribution for Wolfe's contemporary study of a college co-ed. Syntax Entertainment and Trilogy Entertainment Group, which optioned the book ...
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I Am Charlotte Simmons and I Am Going To Be A Movie
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews —
... The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Tom Wolfe’s 2004 novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons, is headed for the big screen. Liz Friedlander, director of Take the Lead, the Antonio Banderas teaches high school kids to dance movie, will direct. John Watson, one of the writers behind Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, is adapting (that movie was a bloated mess, but let’s not give Watson all the heat; director Kevin Costner did more than his share of damage there). ...
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... · Tom Wolfe's sex-at-college novel I Am Charlotte Simmons (how's that for distilling 752 pages into one compound modifier?) will be directed by music video director vet Liz Friedlander, to be eventually followed by Medusa's Pom Pom, a tell-all exposé detailing what went wrong behind the scenes of the box office dud. [THR] ...
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