EXCLUSIVE: Aidan Quinn and Steve Buscemi are engaged on a film adaptation of Sam Shepard play Ages Of The Moon. Quinn and Buscemi are working to get the indie undertaking off the bottom and have discovered their author and cinematographer with a view to capturing this yr.
The 2-hander follows a pair of outdated buddies, Byron and Ames. With bourbon in hand, and sitting on the entrance porch, they chew over many years of friendship and rivalry. Shepard’s play was first staged in 2009 on the Abbey Theatre – the nationwide theater of Eire. Quinn and Buscemi carried out a studying of the play final yr in the identical venue earlier than doing the identical over three nights on the Baryshnikov Arts Middle in New York this Jan.
“We had an incredible night time in Dublin and I simply fell in love with this piece a lot that I’ve now purchased the rights to it and we’re creating it as a screenplay,” Quinn advised Deadline.
He broke out some particulars of the folks on board. “We have now Oren Moverman, the award-winning screenwriter and director. He’s doing the screenplay and going to supply it with Steve and myself and Steve’s firm [Olive Productions]. My brother, the cinematographer Declan Quinn, will shoot it.”
Derrick Tseng and Wren Arthur, who’s Buscemi’s associate in Olive Prods., may even produce. Screenwriter and director Moverman received an Emmy for the doc Willie Nelson and Household and an Academy Award nom for The Messenger.
Aidan Quinn will direct and star alongside Buscemi. Chatting with Deadline from the set of The Walsh Sisters, the RTE and BBC TV adaptation of Marianne Keyes’ bestselling novels, the actor mentioned the hopes is that cameras roll later this yr.
“We’re going to shoot in Upstate New York. It’s set on a porch late in summer season, early fall, so if we’re going to discover a location [there] we want it to movie in August to early October. We want that quantity of daylight and darkness as a result of it will shoot in each.”
Quinn acknowledged 2026 is a risk if the items don’t come collectively to hit the capturing window this yr. His TV work features a lengthy stint on CBS drama Elementary and appearances on different community reveals together with Legislation & Order and Blue Bloods. A protracted checklist of film credit contains Legends of the Fall and Desperately In search of Susan.
In The Walsh Sisters, Quinn, who’s of Irish parentage and has robust hyperlinks to Dublin, performs the daddy of the eponymous brood. Manufacturing wraps subsequent week on the Cuba Photos and Metropolitan Movies-produced six-parter. It launches later this yr on RTE and BBC One. Cineflix Rights is dealing with U.S. and worldwide gross sales.
