Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, and train stations: all these places come alive in Lutes’ masterful hand. The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. Lutes weaves these characters’ lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism.īerlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens-Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. an ending so electrifying that I gasped.'- New York Times Book Reviewĭuring the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. 'The magic in Berlin is in the way Lutes conjures, out of old newspapers and photographs, a city so remote from him in time and space. Waititi is repped by CAA and Manage-ment.Best of 2018 nods from the Washington Post, New York Public Library, Globe and Mail, the Guardian, and more! Waititi’s next film, Next Goal Wins starring Michael Fassbender, bows in the fall. He ultimately landed on Klara and the Sun and, once a deal closes, likely would make it his next film.Īs for Star Wars, insiders say he is still excited about the project and committed to direct that next year. Good Morning America selected Klara and the Sun as its March 2021 Book Club Pick.Īfter directing Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder, which bowed in July, Waititi was weighing a number of options for his next film including his anticipated Star Wars movie at Lucasfilm. 3 and the Indie Best Sellers Hardcover Fiction List at No. and Faber in the UK, debuted on the New York Times Best Sellers Hardcover Fiction List at No. Klara and the Sun, published in March 2021 by Alfred A. Rosie Alison and Jeff Clifford are also exec producing. Elizabeth Gabler and Aislinn Dunster are overseeing the project for 3000 Pictures. Ishiguro, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and won a Booker Prize for his 1989 novel The Remains of the Day, is an EP. Heyday’s Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison brought in the project to Heyday.

David Heyman is producing the film for Heyday Films, and Garrett Basch and Waititi are in negotiations to produce.

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