John Gray announced today that he has acquired the film rights to Bryan Gruley’s mystery thriller The Hanging Tree. Through his production shingle, Ovington Avenue Productions, Gray will write and direct the film, as well as produce it with his producing partner Melissa Jo Peltier. The pair just came off the festival circuit with audience favorite, “White Irish Drinkers,” which was released in 25 cities this past spring by Screen Media.
The Hanging Tree is the second novel in the best-selling Starvation Lake mystery series. The book is nominated for 2011’s The Barry Award and The Anthony Award, awards of the mystery/crime genre. The first book of the series, Starvation Lake, won The Barry Award, The Anthony Award and the Strand Critics Award the year it was released. The third novel, The Skeleton Box, will be released in Summer 2012.
New York based Gray said “Bryan Gruley has written a brilliant series of novels,...
The Hanging Tree is the second novel in the best-selling Starvation Lake mystery series. The book is nominated for 2011’s The Barry Award and The Anthony Award, awards of the mystery/crime genre. The first book of the series, Starvation Lake, won The Barry Award, The Anthony Award and the Strand Critics Award the year it was released. The third novel, The Skeleton Box, will be released in Summer 2012.
New York based Gray said “Bryan Gruley has written a brilliant series of novels,...
- 8/3/2011
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
White Irish Drinkers writer-director John Gray has acquired the Bryan Gruley mystery thriller The Hanging Tree, and he'll write the script to direct. Gray will also produce it under his Ovington Avenue Productions along with partner Melissa Jo Peltier. They worked together on White Irish Drinkers, the coming-of-age drama that was released by Screen Media. The Hanging Tree is the second novel in Gruley's Starvation Lake mystery series. Gus Carpenter, a former Detroit Times reporter-turned-detective, tries to solve the mystery of how a former resident of the Michigan resort town winds up hanging from a tree after she returns home. Gray, who created the CBS series The Ghost Whisperer and wrote and directed Martin and Lewis and Helter Skelter for CBS, also directed the features Born to Be Wild and The Glimmer Man. The book deal was made by Wme. "Bryan Gruley has written a brilliant series of novels, with...
- 8/2/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
The Hanging Tree to be directed by John Gray of White Irish Drinkers. Gray has acquired the Bryan Gruley mystery thriller which he'll also script and produce with his Ovington Avenue Productions, alongside his partner Melissa Jo Peltier, reports Deadline. The Hanging Tree, the second in the Starvation Lake mystery series from Gruley, follows Gus Carpenter, a former Detroit Times reporter-turned-detective on the case of solving a mystery of a former resident who returns to her home and is found hanging from a tree Gray directed Born to Be Wild and The Glimmer Man and said "Bryan Gruley has written a brilliant series of novels, with rich characters in an incredibly visual and fascinating world...
- 8/2/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Hanging Tree to be directed by John Gray of White Irish Drinkers. Gray has acquired the Bryan Gruley mystery thriller which he'll also script and produce with his Ovington Avenue Productions, alongside his partner Melissa Jo Peltier, reports Deadline. The Hanging Tree, the second in the Starvation Lake mystery series from Gruley, follows Gus Carpenter, a former Detroit Times reporter-turned-detective on the case of solving a mystery of a former resident who returns to her home and is found hanging from a tree Gray directed Born to Be Wild and The Glimmer Man and said "Bryan Gruley has written a brilliant series of novels, with rich characters in an incredibly visual and fascinating world...
- 8/2/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Hanging Tree to be directed by John Gray of White Irish Drinkers. Gray has acquired the Bryan Gruley mystery thriller which he'll also script and produce with his Ovington Avenue Productions, alongside his partner Melissa Jo Peltier, reports Deadline. The Hanging Tree, the second in the Starvation Lake mystery series from Gruley, follows Gus Carpenter, a former Detroit Times reporter-turned-detective on the case of solving a mystery of a former resident who returns to her home and is found hanging from a tree Gray directed Born to Be Wild and The Glimmer Man and said "Bryan Gruley has written a brilliant series of novels, with rich characters in an incredibly visual and fascinating world...
- 8/2/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Robert Baruc, President of Screen Media Films, announced today that Screen Media has acquired North American rights for John Gray’s White Irish Drinkers, a gritty coming of age story about working-class Brooklyn brothers, whose involvement in a risky crime may be their only escape from their volatile Irish family.
The film stars newcomers Nick Thurston, Geoff Wigdor and Leslie Murphy, alongside veterans Stephen Lang, Karen Allen, and Peter Riegert. The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the 2010 Woodstock Film Festival, and was just nominated for the Gotham Genius Award. Screen Media will release the film theatrically in Spring 2011.
It’s early autumn of 1975 in Brooklyn and 18 year-old Brian Leary (Nick Thurston) is killing time, pulling off petty crimes with his street tough older brother Danny (Geoff Wigdor), whom he both idolizes and fears. They both live with their parents, Paddy (Stephen Lang), a longshoreman,...
The film stars newcomers Nick Thurston, Geoff Wigdor and Leslie Murphy, alongside veterans Stephen Lang, Karen Allen, and Peter Riegert. The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the 2010 Woodstock Film Festival, and was just nominated for the Gotham Genius Award. Screen Media will release the film theatrically in Spring 2011.
It’s early autumn of 1975 in Brooklyn and 18 year-old Brian Leary (Nick Thurston) is killing time, pulling off petty crimes with his street tough older brother Danny (Geoff Wigdor), whom he both idolizes and fears. They both live with their parents, Paddy (Stephen Lang), a longshoreman,...
- 11/10/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
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