Tom Joad ain’t just for Springsteen anymore. Steven Spielberg, the man behind Jaws, Close Encounters and Schindler’s List, picked up the rights to John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath for his next studio, according to the media grapevine. Spielberg beat Robert Redford’s Sundance to the gold coast in the race to produce the new adaptation for DreamWorks studios. Spielberg probably won’t be directing the movie, though, he is busy working on American Sniper, the story of the Navy Seal Chris Kyle, who will be played by Bradley Cooper.
John Steinbeck’s classic novel came out in 1939 and told the story of the Joad family who headed west during the depression to try and find work when Oklahoma dried out in a hot, arid summer. The Grapes of Wrath was a 1940 classic directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda, John Carradine and Jane Darwell. Ford won a Best Director Oscar for it and Jane Darwell won the Best Supporting Actress award.
“Then I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be ever'where—wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there... I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'—I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready. An' when our folk eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build—why, I'll be there.” Tom Joad.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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