Some excellent Canadian novels are going to be made into
films. Bell Media has announced funding
for a number of film adaptations of award-winning novels.
“Screenwriter Michael McGowan has signed on to write All My Puny Sorrows [by Miriam Toews],
which won the 2013 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was nominated for
the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The novel follows a woman named Yolandi, who
grapples with her sister's request to help end her life. [See my review on
July 20, 2015.]
“Jason Buxton is writing Three
Day Road, [Joseph] Boyden's debut novel that took home the 2005 Rogers
Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. The book focuses on two Cree snipers haunted by
their experiences on the battlefield during World War I. [I read this book back in 2005 and loved it, but I didn’t write
reviews back then, so I have none to post.]
“Bell Media renewed
the option on the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner 419 written by Will Ferguson. Suzette Couture is writing the
script. 419 is a dark thriller about
the criminal underworld behind notorious Nigerian internet scams. [This novel I have not yet read.]
“Funds have been committed to production on Indian Horse based on the book by
Richard Wagamese. Stephen Campanelli will direct the film, with the script
written by Dennis Foon. Indian Horse
is about an Ojibway hockey player who struggles with an alcohol addiction. [See
my review on November 6, 2015.]
“Screenwriter Barbara Samuels is working on a second draft
of the script for Through Black Spruce,
which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for Joseph Boyden in 2008. [I read this book in October of 2008 – I
will post my review tomorrow.] Through Black Spruce follows the parallel
journeys of a Cree bush pilot and his niece, as they face heartbreak, fierce
love and ancient blood feuds.” (http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/03/joseph-boyden-miriam-toews-and-richard-wagamese-books-getting-the-movie-treatment.html
For a complete list of film projects supported by Bell Media,
see http://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/press/bell-medias-harold-greenberg-fund-announces-support-for-30-new-canadian-film-projects-2/.
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