Fyodor Dostoyevsky‘s novel The Idiot is getting an adaptation, too! According to the latest reports, Paul Williams will be in director's chair, while Jackson Rathbone and Erika Christensen have signed on to star in it!
Of course, all news for upcoming thriller are coming straight from Cannes, where Intandem Films is currently shopping the package to buyers.
As you already know, in The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest.
He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky's “positively beautiful man” clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his innocence and moral idealism.
Now, according to Variety, the thriller will center on “a man of pure spirit who thinks he can save the world but is caught between a wildly beautiful and fragile woman, a woman he is falling in love with and a friend who is trying to destroy him.”
We also learned that Donald Kushner (Tron: Legacy) will be in charge for producing the whole thing.
The Idiot will start shooting this September in Los Angeles.
