Peter Temple's Truth to be made into film
JA
February 18
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Temple’s Miles-Franklin-winning novel, Truth, is to be adapted into film:
Peter Temple’s award-winning crime novel Truth is to be turned into a feature film by John Polson, the founder of the Tropfest short film festival and director of Hollywood thrillers ‘Swimfan’ and ‘Hide and Seek’.
… ‘'I’d been talking to three people who wanted to option it, then a fourth came along, and then after John there was another,’‘ said Temple, 65, yesterday. ’‘Over the years, I think almost all of my books [he’s written nine] have been optioned. One guy renewed the option on one book eight times before he went bankrupt.’'
None has yet been made into a film, though ‘The Broken Shore’, a kind of companion piece and precursor to Truth, is being adapted as a three-part miniseries by the team that made Rake for the ABC.
Temple said he went with Polson because ‘'I like his work and he’s very enthusiastic, and I think he’s the right man to do it. In film, enthusiasm is everything – that and persistence.’'
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