The A24 folks are getting into the Sean Durkin business once again. After backing his third feature film in The Iron Claw, they’ve also set up shop once again with producers Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush and Josh Safdie. Deadline is reporting that Saoirse Ronan and Austin Butler are set to star in the book-to-film adaptation of Deep Cuts – a first time novel by Holly Brickley which was actually just released this week. The project will span a full decade in the naughts – and will geographically move in the U.S. Here is the book description:
It’s a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates is on the jukebox, and Percy—who has no talent for music, just lots of opinions about it—can’t stop herself from overanalyzing the song, indulging what she knows to be her most annoying habit. But something is different tonight. The guy beside her at the bar, fellow student Joe Morrow, is a songwriter. And he could listen to Percy talk all night. Joe asks Percy for feedback on one of his songs—and the results kick off a partnership that will span years, ignite new passions in them both, and set Joe on a path to indie-rock stardom. But it also bruises Joe’s ego, and traps Percy in a role she resents. How long can Percy ignore the roars of her heart, and of her own unique talent, to protect their thrilling collaboration?
