Dennis Lee Captures 'Birds in Fall'
Filed under: Drama, Deals, Scripts
I think we've found the new directorial powerhouse of dramatic cinema. Soon we're getting Dennis Lee's Fireflies in the Garden -- a feature that stars the likes of Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, and Emily Watson, deals with a family torn by an unexpected tragedy, and is getting a good initial response. Now Variety reports that he's signing on for another heavy dramatic piece -- he will adapt and direct Brad Kessler's Birds in Fall -- a story that has even more tragedy.It's not an upper of a premise, but the pieces sound intriguing. An innkeeper sees a plane crash into the ocean off Nova Scotia, and then prepares as the families of the victims descend upon the area. There's an ornithologist, a Bulgarian pianist, an Iranian exile, a Taiwanese couple, and a Dutch teen who stay at the inn as they try to work through his tragedy, each dealing with the loved ones they've lost.
According to Publisher's Weekly (a part of the above title link to Amazon), it's also a modern-day retelling of the Greek myth of Ceyx and Alcyone -- where he died, she mourned and threw herself into the same sea, where they were turned into halcyon birds by the gods. It should be a little more optimistic than that, as Variety says that the story includes "a female character who finds comfort and hope in the company of the other surviving family members," which sounds like she won't Romeo and Juliet, or Ceyx and Alcyone, herself.
Meanwhile, Fireflies is set to be released later this year.
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