Director Robert Orlando to Develop Short Film Based on Story From WALL STREET NOIR
(PRLEAP.COM) New York, NY (August 4, 2007) – The Nexus Project LLC announced today that award-winning writer/director Robert Orlando has optioned movie rights to one of the stories from author and editor Peter Spiegelman’s recent crime fiction anthology Wall Street Noir to develop as a film. The story will be adapted initially as a live-action short and may subsequently be expanded to feature length. This project is the first of a planned series of short films Orlando has said he intends to write and direct exploring the link between high finance and the lowest of crimes.
“As Wall Street Noir amply demonstrates, the world of finance is as suspenseful and filled with passion, greed, temptation, and moral ambiguity as any classic film noir,” said Orlando, whose first feature, Moment In Time, explored similar themes. Orlando received the CINE Golden Eagle Award for his short film, The Deal, shot in a film noir visual style, and he has previously adapted work by Mark Helprin and Jonathan Lethem. “As soon as I read the book I saw the potential to make a terrific film set in this universe, and this particular story grabbed me with its breathtakingly ruthless plot.”
Based on the story “The Quant” by Richard Aleas, the film will tell the story of a brilliant young developer of trading strategies who runs afoul of the head of his firm when his wife, who cannot conceive a child and blames the problem on the stress of living in New York, demands that he leave his job. Having made tens of millions of dollars for his company, he’s become too valuable to lose – meaning the man’s wife, regrettably, needs to be eliminated. But who is going to do the dirty work?
“Wall Street is actually quite a noir-ish place, a social crucible that is much more Jim Thompson than Warren Buffet,” said editor Spiegelman. “This runs contrary to the public image of a well-scrubbed, rational, even glamorous place that the Street likes to project, but when you consider the big money, dysfunctional egos, cutthroat competition, class struggle, desperation, and sweaty paranoia that wash around there, it’s less of a stretch.”
Wall Street Noir is the latest in the popular Noir Series from Akashic Books. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly praised the book’s “stellar cast” of writers and wrote, “As this volume demonstrates, Wall Street is no longer restricted to lower Manhattan, but has become a worldwide theater in which greed, volatility and desperation often lead to crime.” In the New York Sun, Otto Penzler wrote that the book offers “a close-up look at this fascinating milieu with its built-in opportunity for nefarious activity.”
“An outstanding line-up of authors has produced one of the best entries yet in the long-running series,” Penzler continued. “Even if you’re like me and have only a passing acquaintance with money, it doesn’t make the subject any less interesting. This engrossing collection does not require an MBA to understand that there are a lot of people who will do any number of really nasty things to get their hands on the green stuff.”
For further information about Wall Street Noir, visit www.akashicbooks.com/wallstreetnoir.htm. All inquiries about the film should be directed to Nexus Media (inquiry@nexusmediasite.com).
Contact: The Nexus Project, LLC
46 Benjamin Rush Lane
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 430-8202
www.thenexusproject.com
inquiry@nexusmediasite.com
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“As Wall Street Noir amply demonstrates, the world of finance is as suspenseful and filled with passion, greed, temptation, and moral ambiguity as any classic film noir,” said Orlando, whose first feature, Moment In Time, explored similar themes. Orlando received the CINE Golden Eagle Award for his short film, The Deal, shot in a film noir visual style, and he has previously adapted work by Mark Helprin and Jonathan Lethem. “As soon as I read the book I saw the potential to make a terrific film set in this universe, and this particular story grabbed me with its breathtakingly ruthless plot.”
Based on the story “The Quant” by Richard Aleas, the film will tell the story of a brilliant young developer of trading strategies who runs afoul of the head of his firm when his wife, who cannot conceive a child and blames the problem on the stress of living in New York, demands that he leave his job. Having made tens of millions of dollars for his company, he’s become too valuable to lose – meaning the man’s wife, regrettably, needs to be eliminated. But who is going to do the dirty work?
“Wall Street is actually quite a noir-ish place, a social crucible that is much more Jim Thompson than Warren Buffet,” said editor Spiegelman. “This runs contrary to the public image of a well-scrubbed, rational, even glamorous place that the Street likes to project, but when you consider the big money, dysfunctional egos, cutthroat competition, class struggle, desperation, and sweaty paranoia that wash around there, it’s less of a stretch.”
Wall Street Noir is the latest in the popular Noir Series from Akashic Books. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly praised the book’s “stellar cast” of writers and wrote, “As this volume demonstrates, Wall Street is no longer restricted to lower Manhattan, but has become a worldwide theater in which greed, volatility and desperation often lead to crime.” In the New York Sun, Otto Penzler wrote that the book offers “a close-up look at this fascinating milieu with its built-in opportunity for nefarious activity.”
“An outstanding line-up of authors has produced one of the best entries yet in the long-running series,” Penzler continued. “Even if you’re like me and have only a passing acquaintance with money, it doesn’t make the subject any less interesting. This engrossing collection does not require an MBA to understand that there are a lot of people who will do any number of really nasty things to get their hands on the green stuff.”
For further information about Wall Street Noir, visit www.akashicbooks.com/wallstreetnoir.htm. All inquiries about the film should be directed to Nexus Media (inquiry@nexusmediasite.com).
Contact: The Nexus Project, LLC
46 Benjamin Rush Lane
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 430-8202
www.thenexusproject.com
inquiry@nexusmediasite.com
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