While audiences wait with baited breath for a third Sherlock Holmes movie, they'll have to content themselves with director Guy Ritchie's next film, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. While Ritchie has been tied to numerous projects over the last year or so (including an Cannonball Run remake believe it or not) his next project may be about the building that made King Kong famous.
"Deadline" reports that Warner Bros. has just acquired the rights to the 2006 book "Empire Rising" which describes the construction of NYC's Empire State building. Warner Bros. is currently circling Ritchie to helm the project if he's interested. Thomas Kelly's historical fiction novel tells:
...the tale of a love triangle between Johnny Farrell, an important aide to the mayor; Johnny's artist girlfriend, Grace Masterson; and construction worker and part-time boxer Michael Briody. Each of these characters represents, without the flatness of type, a significant element of the fabric of New York City as the Empire State Building rises ethereally above the street-level realities of hard economic times and how big-city government works. Kelly successfully melds actual historical figures and fictional ones, but in the end, it is New York City itself that emerges as the central character here: a place that makes people the way they are.
Sounds intriguing. Seems like the kind of stuff that the Academy eats up for Oscar time too. Also it has a criminal element and anybody who knows Ritchie knows he does crime dramas very well.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. does not yet have a release date.
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