Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaJez Butterworth will adapt Don DeLillo’s “The Silence” for the screen, Variety has learned.
Producer Uri Singer, who is also producing and helped put together Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of another DeLillo novel, “White Noise,” has secured the rights to the book, which was published in 2020.“The Silence” unfolds at a dinner party in Manhattan during Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022.
The diners include a retired physics professor, her husband and her former student. They are waiting for a couple, who is set to join them after flying in from Paris.
To share more might risk ruining the post-modern twists and turns.Butterworth is one of the most acclaimed playwrights working today.
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