Here’s a new frontrunner for buzziest project to hit the Cannes Market in May. Deadline reports that Richard Gere and Diana Silvers will star in Edward Zwick‘s upcoming romantic drama “Asymmetry.” The film will be Zwick’s first since 2018’s “Trial By Fire.”
Based on Lisa Halliday‘s 2018 novel of the same name, “Asymmetry” will star Agron as a young editorial assistant in NYC whose chance run-in with Gere’s older author in Central Park sparks a remarkable connection that changes their lives forever. Halliday collaborates with Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz on the adapted screenplay, with Zwick and Herskovitz also producing via Bedford Falls Company.
Other producers on the project include Clay Pecorin via Rainmaker Films and FilmNation Entertainment. FilmNation and Rainmaker co-finance the film, as well, with FilmNation launching international sales at Cannes, co-repping domestically with CAA.
“Asymmetry” was a literary hit when it was first published in 2018, with raves write-ups coming from The New Yorker and The New York Times; Barack Obama also included it on his list of best books for that year. Here’s a quick press blurb from Zwick about his love for the novel and his plans to adapt it: ““Like so many others I was charmed by Lisa’s book, not just because it’s emotional, insightful, and very funny, but because it’s about two people who discover that what the world calls asymmetry can in fact have another name: love.”
Gere adds “Asymmetry” to a list of upcoming projects that includes the film “Left Seat,” in production now, and the Apple TV miniseries “The Off Weeks.” As for Silvers, she’s coming off of “Billy Knight,” in theaters this summer, and the Netflix western drama series “The Abandons,” which premiered on the streamer in January.
A new film from Edward Zwick is always quite exciting, and pairing Gere and Silvers together for “Asymmetry” is quite intriguing. Let’s mark this one as the most-anticipated project hitting the Cannes market next month so far.
