Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSister will partner with Taffy Brodesser-Akner on “The Get,” a feature film based on Matt Shaer’s GQ piece “The Orthodox Hit Squad.”Brodesser-Akner, best known for her New York Times Magazine profiles of the likes of Val Kilmer to Bradley Cooper along with her best-seller “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” will write the screenplay. “The Get” unfolds in New York and New Jersey’s ultra-orthodox communities.
It follows one notorious rabbi, Mendel Epstein, who was sought for help in managing the worst divorce cases, where husbands exploited Jewish law to deny their wives freedom from miserable marriages.
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