Columbia, Raimi reunite on 'Day' job

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Stalked: Kevin Spacey, Sam Raimi
Published 6/17/2008 at Filmstalker
... . Sam Raimi is to direct a film of the soon to be released book, The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. The novel is set in Boston at the end of WWI and many soldiers are returning with influenza. It's also a time when attempts are being made to unionise the police force, and this leads to a historic strike. The news comes from Variety . Lehane also wrote the books which Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island are based on.

SAM RAIMI PULLS AN AFFLECK
Published 6/17/2008 at FilmDrunk.com
... Given Day" is set in 1919 Boston, with the city in turmoil as soldiers are returning home from WWI, having brought back an epidemic of Spanish influenza. Attempts to unionize the police department have set the stage for a historic strike and two cops take center stage."While it deals with many of the same themes as (Lehane's) earlier work, it is also his most ambitious book, tying events of a century ago to the subjects we struggle with today," Raimi said. [Variety] ...

Movie News Roundup: Stephen King, Kevin Spacey, Sam Raimi Get Busy
Published 6/17/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
... His clients in the movie will include "Hollywood characters" like Robin Williams, Keke Palmer, Laura Ramsey and Gore Vidal, among others. Columbia and Sam Raimi will team up together again after their Spider-Man ventures for yet another adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel. Lehane's books make excellent screenplays, apparently, as Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and the upcoming DiCaprio-Scorsese project Shutter Island have all been adapted. Next up, Raimi will direct a film version of The ...