It’s all about nabbing the rights in Hollywood, isn’t it? If you follow the headlines offered by the trades, you’re constantly learning which hit novel has just been scooped up by a major studio or filmmaker for adaptation to the big screen. These days, it’s usually concerning a more recent bestseller, but there remain myriad centuries-old works that have yet to be translated into the cinematic medium, or reinterpreted for the modern era. It doesn’t even matter if a work has been adapted before. For instance, The Sorrows of Young Werther was made into several forgotten, foreign-language titles, including a German period drama back in 1976, but that’s a far cry from the new film Young Werther, a modernized rom-com spin on the Romantic classic.
Filmmaker José Lourenço and his leading men spoke to MovieWeb about their exciting new rom-com for the books — one that was, in fact, based on a book. Read More