Novel idea . Werner Herzog will return to non-documentary
film-making with Vernon God Little. Photograph: Dan Tuffs for the Guardian
German director Werner
Herzog is to return to fiction
for his next project, an adaptation of DBC Pierre's 2003 novel Vernon God
Little, reports Variety.
The eclectic film-maker's last fiction feature was the eccentric My Son, My
Son, What Have Ye Done in 2009, and he has concentrated on
documentaries in recent years, with Cave of
Forgotten Dreams, about the Ardèche
cave paintings, and Into
the Abyss, a study of Texas's death row.
In Vernon God Little, Herzog will return to Texas: it's about a
teenager who heads to Mexico after becoming a scapegoat for a high-school
killing in a small Texan town. The novel was given the Man Booker prize in 2003 and Whitbread first
novel award (now Costa) in 2003.
There is no word on any casting, but the script will be written by
Andrew Birkin, who is best known for writing and directing an adaptation of Ian McEwan's
The Cement Garden
in 1993.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/oct/22/werner-herzog-vernon-god-little
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