It’s not uncommon for a director, following his break-out, to accrue a great deal of potential projects, but when it comes to David Lowery‘s slate, the variety of genres has us intrigued. Coming off Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, which just enjoyed a theatrical release last month, he’s been attached to a Pete’s Dragon reboot, an adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis‘ Torso, a crime drama with Robert Redford, a sci-fi film with his Saints star Casey Affleck, and now we’ve got another new direction he may head to.
Coming from Deadline, producer Jeffrey Sharp and financier Jim Kohlberg have launched a new production company called Story Mining & Supply Co. and have already set Lowery on their first project. He’s lining up an adaptation of Kevin Powers‘ acclaimed, award-winning novel The Yellow Birds, which he’ll write and direct. Following two young soldiers who attempt to stay alive during the Iraq War, check out the synopsis below via Amazon:
“The war tried to kill us in the spring.” So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for.
In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined.
With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.
Have you read The Yellow Birds? Is Lowery a good fit?