While "Me And Earl And The Dying Girl" director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon was a victim of the annual Sundance backlash, where a film gets praised in Park City only to flop commercially and get critical barbs when it’s released down the line, that hasn’t stopped him from pressing on with new projects. While he might have hit a slight bump in the road last fall when he abruptly exited Will Smith‘s upcoming "Collateral Beauty" (David Frankel took over), he’s got some major projects brewing including "The Current War," with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jake Gyllenhaal attached, and "A Foreigner," set to star Oscar Isaac. Now the director’s slate has one more cooking.
Deadline reports that Gomez-Rejon will direct an adaptation of Delia Ephron‘s upcoming novel "Siracusa." Set to be published this summer, the author will adapt her own "Rashomon"-like story about four friends who travel to Italy, where infidelity and catastrophe surface. Here’s the book synopsis:
