Oscar winner Mark Rylance and director Ciro Guerra are bringing Nobel Prize winner Waiting for the Barbarians to the big screen with producer Michael Fitzgerald. The book from J.M. Coetzee was published in 1980 and won numerous awards.
Michael Fitzgerald
Follows a magistrate of the border outpost as the reckless behavior of the Empire he serves threatens to trigger a Barbarian invasion. He begins to question imperialism when he saves a young ‘barbarian’ and realizes that all is not what it appears to be.
Logline: A rugged man and a pioneer woman agree to guide three insane women on a wild journey from Nebraska to Iowa.
Logline: Set in communist Romania, story follows a group of Jewish men who rob a bank and tell the people who are witnessing the act that they are filming a movie. The are taken to jail and sentenced to death not because of the act they committed, but because they are Jewish.
