![]() ![]() ![]() That version never came to pass, and Pollack departed the project, with Stephen Daldry, hot off his Oscar-nominated sophomore film “ The Hours,” replacing him in the director’s chair. ![]() And as tends to happen with a cultural phenomenon like that book, movie rights were snapped up even before publication, with Scott Rudin (who produced the adaptation of Chabon’s “ Wonder Boys” around the same time) acquiring the project, and setting the late Sydney Pollack to direct, with Jude Law circling the role of escape-artist-turned-comic-artist Joe Kavalier. This year marks a full decade since Michael Chabon‘s masterpiece “ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel telling the story of America in the 1930s and 1940s through the eyes of two Jewish comic book creators, was published. ![]()
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