Richard Gere & Diana Silvers To Star In Edward Zwick’s ‘Asymmetry’

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Gere (Fairly Girl) and Diana Silvers (Booksmart) have been set to star in Oscar winner Edward Zwick‘s romantic drama Asymmetry, which relies on Lisa Halliday’s acclaimed 2018 novel of the identical identify.

Halliday collaborated with Zwick (The Final Samurai) and Marshall Herskovitz on the screenplay, with Zwick and Herskovitz of the Bedford Falls Firm producing alongside Clay Pecorin of Rainmaker Movies and FilmNation Leisure. FilmNation and Rainmaker are co-financing.

FilmNation will launch worldwide gross sales on the upcoming Cannes market and co-rep home rights with CAA Media Finance Group.

Asymmetry, per the logline, tells the story of a younger editorial assistant in New York, Alice (Silvers), who comes upon world-renowned 70-year-old creator Ezra (Gere) in Central Park someday. Their one second of eye contact sparks a connection that leads them each down a life-changing rabbit gap, the place they create a non-public world only for two. Ezra, well-known for his audacious work, finds somebody with whom he may be overtly susceptible, and Alice finds the braveness to discover her personal aspirations as a author. Till it’s all put in danger when their secret relationship is uncovered.

The New Yorker known as the e-book “a literary phenomenon” and the New York Occasions included it within the checklist of “15 outstanding books by girls which might be shaping the best way we learn and write fiction within the twenty first century.” Barack Obama included it in his checklist of greatest books from 2018.

Halliday, creator and co-writer, mentioned “It has been a pleasure and a privilege to work with Ed and Marshall on transposing Alice and Ezra’s story for the display. I’m enormously grateful to them for his or her humor, ingenuity, braveness, compassion and dedication.”

Zwick, recognized for producing Oscar winner Shakespeare In Love and for guiding films together with Legends of the Fall, The Final Samurai, Blood Diamond and Jack Reacher: By no means Go Again, mentioned: “Like so many others I used to be charmed by Lisa’s e-book, not simply because it’s emotional, insightful, and really humorous, however as a result of it’s about two individuals who uncover that what the world calls asymmetry can in actual fact have one other identify: love.”

Stacey Snider, FilmNation Leisure Chief Inventive Officer, and Clay Pecorin, Rainmaker Movies co-founder and associate, added: “Asymmetry tells an unconventional love story that explores an inconceivable connection between two individuals at very completely different levels of their lives, which challenges their — and our — preconceptions about love and energy.”

Zwick is repped by CAA and Yorn, Levine. Gere is repped by WME and Hirsch Wallerstein. Silvers is repped by WME, Leisure 360 and Jackoway Austen.