Coens speak 'Yiddish' for Columbia

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Coen Brothers to Bring Yiddish to the Screen
Published 2/12/2008 at FilmWad
Joel and Ethan Coen are teaming up with major producer Scott Rudin to bring Michael Chabon's novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union to the big screen. Yiddish is the third Chabon novel that Rudin has developed. First he produced the critically acclaimed Wonder Boys, based on Chabon's 1995 novel of the same name, and he has been developing The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for several years (there's a movie that needs to finally get made). According to Variety, in Yiddish, Chabon sets up a contemporary scenario where Jewish settlers are about to be displaced by U.S. government's ...

Coens Meet Chabon Via Rudin
Published 2/12/2008 by Variety.com * at Thompson On Hollywood
... The Coens are going to shoot Michael Chabon's Yiddish Policemen's Union--a book I loved but that I thought was unfilmable by Hollywood. This they could pull off. This could be another Scott Rudin match made in heaven. Click here for Michael Fleming's story. ...

Coen Brothers to Direct Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
Published 2/12/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
In what will mark their second consecutive film examining the Jewish experience following 2009’s A Serious Man, Joel and Ethan Coen will write, direct and produce an adaptation of feted author Michael Chabon’s 2007 bestseller The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. Mega-producer Scott Rudin, who was behind the Coens’s No Country for Old Men as well as There Will Be Blood last year, helped bring the deal to fruition at Columbia Pictures (he also owns the rights to Chabon’s classic The Adventures of Kavalier & ...

The Coens adapt Chabon!!!!
Published 2/12/2008 by Quint at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. All this lawsuit business... nasty, bad vibes... Now time for some good vibes. The Coen Bros rule. We know this. Michael Chabon rules. We know this. Together they shall rule the earth, wind, water, wood... everything Captain Planet loves, essentially. The Coens are adapting and directing Chabon's THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN'S UNION. I haven't read this particular Chabon book, but it sounds right up the Coens' alley. Check out this blurb from the Variety article about the story: "Chabon sets up a contemporary scenario where Jewish settlers are about to be displaced by U.S. government's plans to turn the frozen locale of ...

Early buzz: Keanu, Frances Bean, 'Cosby' reunion and more
Published 2/12/2008 by Whitney Matheson at USATODAY.com - Pop Candy
Good morning to you! Last night I finally watched Away from Her , and I'm still feeling a little emotional. I wouldn't complain if Julie Christie won the Oscar, though I think I'm pulling for Marion Cotillard . Today's headlines: - Here's an update ...

Coens to adapt Chabon!?!
Published 2/12/2008 by Adam Ross at DVD Panache
Yup, I think the Coen Bros. have firmly put The Lady Killers behind them. With this news, the filmmaking duo will soon occupy a new creative zipcode -- miles away from anyone in Hollywood (more miles than they already are). Variety says Joel and Ethan Coen's newest project ...

The Coens Will Translate Michael Chabon's ‘Yiddish’ for Rudin
Published 2/12/2008 at Vulture
... Coens Speak Yiddish: Joel and Ethan Coen reteam with their No Country for Old Men producer Scott Rudin to adapt Michael Chabon's brilliant The Yiddish Policeman's Union, about a murder investigation in an alternate-history Jewish settlement in Alaska. And just like that, everything else on the Most Awaited List gets knocked down a rung. [Variety] ...

Coen's film with heroin addict messiah
Published 2/12/2008 at Filmstalker
... based on the novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. The story is a noir style whodunnit where the victim was a heroin addicted chess prodigy who might well have been the messiah. Oh yes, there's a story for you. This one may well turn its focus away from the main plot line as the backdrop sees the U.S. government relocating Jewish settlers from Sitka, Alaska as it returns the land to the Alaskan natives. Now that's an even more strange and complex tale according to the Variety story. Perhaps it will, by means of the main plot, bring ...

Shorties
Published 2/12/2008 by david (boy@largeheartedboy.com) at Largehearted Boy
... Variety reports that the Coen brothers will adapt Michael Chabon's novel. The Yiddish Policemen's Union, for the big screen. ...

The News: What's "Connecticut"?
Published 2/12/2008 at The Reeler
... ] --The Coens are hooking back up with No Country For Old Men producer Scott Rudin for an adaptation of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union . "Jewish settlers are about to be displaced by U.S. government's plans to turn the frozen locale of Sitka, Alaska, over to Alaskan natives," writes Michael Fleming. "Against this backdrop is a noir-style murder mystery in which a rogue cop investigates the killing of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy who might be the messiah." So basically it's Fargo with Jews. Sounds like a Connecticut film to ...

The Coen Bros. Learn a Little 'Yiddish'
Published 2/12/2008 by Jessica Barnes at Cinematical
... flying fast and furious for their adaptation of No Country for Old Men, the brothers have lined up their next literary adaptation. Variety reports that the Coens have purchased the screen rights to ...

In the works: The Coens adapt Chabon, Tomei plays a stripper.
Published 2/12/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
Trailer du jour: For "The Forbidden Kingdom," here. Director Rob Minkoff, of "The Lion King" and "Stuart Little," seems to have made an outrageous, unblushing asiaphile mash-up, with Jet Li playing a taciturn white-clad fightin' monk, Jackie Chan as a drunken kung-fu master, Li Bing Bing playing a variation on The Bride with White Hair, Liu Yifei as the Zhang Ziyi stand-in and "Snow Angels"' Michael Angarano as the inevitable white kid who learns martial arts, saves all of ancient China and makes the film palatable to a wider demographic. In the works: The ...

Next film for the Coens
Published 2/12/2008 at OH NO!!
For their next collaboration, the "No Country for Old Men" team of Joel and Ethan Coen and producer Scott Rudin will transfer another Pulitzer Prize-winning author's work into a film. Columbia Pictures has acquired screen rights to the bestselling Michael ...

Hollywood Shuffle - Rudin, Coen Brothers Gobble Up More Hot Books
Published 2/12/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
Fresh off their upcoming Oscar wins, the Coen brothers are now set to write and direct Michael Chabon 's 2007 novel, The Yiddish Policeman's Union , for Scott Rudin . The novel, about Jewish settlers in Alaska, has sold 191,000 copies in hardcover alone, according to Nielsen Bookscan. The announcement of a Coen-Rudin-Chabon union is forthcoming. Rudin is known for buying up hot, award-laden books. He produced the Coens' No Country for Old Men , which is based on a Cormac McCarthy novel and up for eight Oscars this month. He also produced the Oscar competition, There ...

Coens Join Policemen’s Union
Published 2/12/2008 by Kirsten Anderson at At The Movies - Film News and Reviews
  Joel and Ethan Coen, literary types. With all success the Coen’s have had with one adaptation of an award-winning American author’s novel, why not try another? Variety is reporting that Joel and Ethan Coen have signed on to do their writing/directing team thing with Michael Chabon’s novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. They’ll also produce along with Scott Rudin. Chabon’s novel takes place in an alternate universe where after World War II, Jewish settlers established a homeland in Sitka, Alaska.  Now, years later, they are about to be displaced. Amidst ...

Coen Brothers To Take On “Yiddish Policemen”
Published 2/12/2008 by Rick at TunaFlix
Columbia Pictures has acquired screen rights to the bestselling Michael Chabon novel “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” with the Coens writing, directing and producing with Rudin. Source Chabon fans, rejoice. After producer Scott Rudin put together the underrated Wonder Boys in 2000, and started work on an adaptation of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” last year, he’s moved onto his third Chabon novel - ...

The Coen Brothers Meet The Yiddish Police [Trade Roundup]
Published 2/12/2008 by Mark at Defamer
... · In what could be a dream match of creative team and quirky literary material, Joel and Ethan Coen will adapt Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union for Columbia, a "noir-style murder mystery in which a rogue cop investigates the killing of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy who might be the messiah" set in a Jewish settlement in Alaska. (Are we allowed to get pre-excited about this one?) [Variety] ...

Coen Brothers, Michael Chabon Team Up for Yiddish Policemen
Published 2/12/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
Michael Chabon, book-to-film heavy hitter. After his book Wonder Boys was made into a movie in 2000, Michael Chabon's work The Mysteries of Pittsburgh made it to audiences at this year's Sundance (I thought the movie was okay). A film version of his tome The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is currently in pre-production. Now there's news that yet another Michael Chabon novel will be adapted for screen, this time with the Coen Bros. handling the direction. The Yiddish Policemen's Union According to Variety, "Chabon sets up a contemporary ...

Some Other Crap That Happened...
Published 2/12/2008 at I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
- Those greedy bastards at the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien are under the impression that having created the lush world, characters, and entire story of The Lord of the Rings entitles them to some percentage of the profits, and are suing New Line ...