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Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Sets ‘The Fortress of Solitude’ Film Adaptation at Amazon (EXCLUSIVE)
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterAlfonso Gomez-Rejon will mount a filmed adaptation of “The Fortress of Solitude” at Amazon Studios, continuing his creative relationship with the streaming giant.Behind the festival hit “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” and Benedict Cumberbatch’s “The Current War,” Gomez-Rejon will direct the project based on Jonathan Lethem’s New York Times best-selling novel. Acclaimed playwright Dave Harris is writing the script.“The Fortress of Solitude” is the story of two friends, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude, who come of age in 1970s Brooklyn.
