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Jeff Nichols Reveals He Is Writing Arkansas-Set Original Script Alongside Cormac McCarthy Adaptations – Marrakech
Jeff Nichol Reveals He Is Writing New Original Script Alongside Cormac McCarthy Adaptations - Marrakech
Jeff Nichols has revealed is he writing his first original work since 2016 sci-fi Midnight Special that will take him back to his native territory of Arkansas, backdrop to early features Shotgun Stories and Mud. The project is in addition to his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novels ‘The Passenger’ and its companion ‘Stella Maris’ about siblings living with the knowledge that their father helped develop the atom bomb. Who would have thought that a kid who grew up in rural Arkansas would be standing on the floor of the Palais, screening a film that was very personal to them,” he said, referring to Mud, which played in Competition at Cannes.
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