Entertainment News
2006-02-11
Producer acquires
film rights to gay baseball novel
Andrew Lang will
produce the film adaptation of Peter Lefcourt's
seriocomic 1992 novel The Dreyfus Affair
Andrew
Lang—producer of the upcoming film Loverboy
starring Kevin Bacon—has acquired film rights
to The Dreyfus Affair, Peter Lefcourt’s
seriocomic novel about a major league shortstop who falls in
love with his second baseman. A film adaptation of the
best-selling 1992 novel had lingered in development at
Disney, Fox, and New Line before Lang acquired the
rights through his Andrew Lang Productions banner. According
to a statement, the decision was not motivated by a
recent Los Angeles Times story in which The
Dreyfus Affair was noted as a project that
could benefit from the runaway success of Brokeback
Mountain.
“The time
is right for The Dreyfus Affair to be made into
a film,” said Lang, who had been negotiating the
rights for the past two months. “At its heart,
Peter’s groundbreaking novel is a
crowd-pleasing love story. Our film will remain faithful to
the book’s upbeat and provocative roots, which
is why we are looking at directors who have
demonstrated a razor’s-edge sense of comedic
timing.”
Lefcourt is
working on a new adaptation and will serve as a producer
along with Lang. Lefcourt’s other novels include
The Woody, The Deal, and The
Manhattan Beach Project, a skewering of
reality television. (Advocate.com)
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