Pryce, Hare, Page Set for HBO Film; Hare Makes Corrections

Variety reports that Tony Award-winner Jonathan Pryce will be among the stars of a new HBO Films project, which will feature a teleplay by award-winning British playwright David Hare. 

Pryce (Miss Saigon, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Comedians) will star alongside Uma Thurman and Paddy Considine in My Zinc Bed, which will feature Hare's (Stuff Happens, Plenty, film: The Hours) adaptation of his own play.  A third theatre veteran - Anthony Page (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof revivals) - will be on board to direct the TV film, which will be co-produced by HBO and the BBC.  It will air in 2008.

My Zinc Bed, originally seen as a play at London's Royal Court Theater in 2000, "centers on a young idealist alcoholic (Considine), his wealthy boss (Pryce) and the boss' wife (Thurman), with whom the idealist has an affair."

In other news, Hare will adapt the upcoming feature film version of The Corrections from Jonathan Franzen's award-winning novel about a troubled Midwestern family.  Scott Rudin will produce the film.  Hare most recently directed Joan Didion's one-woman play The Year of Magical Thinking, based on Didion's memoir and starring Vanessa Regrave.

Photo of David Hare by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.; photo of Jonathan Pryce by Ben Strothmann

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