Polanski planning to adapt Tony Award winning play from behind bars?
God of Carnage to be brought to big screen by Roman Polanski
Incarcerated on house arrest and awaiting trial for decades old sexual offence charges hardly seems like the most ideal of places to get the creative juices flowing. Alas Chinatown director Roman Polanski, currently in Switzerland waiting extradition for said charges to the United States, is hardly the most conventional of artists.
The diminutive paedophile is currently making plans for his next film, an adaptation of the Tony Award winning play God of Carnage according to Totalfilm. The play, which has been likened to Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party, focuses on two sets of parents whose children become involved in a fight at the park and starred Jeff Daniels, Marcia Gay Harden and James Gandolfini when the project opened on Broadway last March. Although it is not certain if Polanski would like to cast the triumvirate talent of Daniels, Harden and Gandolfini in his big screen adaptation, there has been little in the way to suggest that his unsavoury charges have led to anything approaching a boycott for his action. Indeed Polanski is such a lionized figure within Hollywood that there have been petitions signed by a number of high profile artists such as Martin Scorcese and David Lynch requesting Polanski’s charges get dropped.
Polanski’s latest film, The Ghost Writer starring Ewan McGregor, is currently completing post-production with a view to a release later this year.
