All out for 'America' adaptation

May 18, 2007 U.K. and U.S. financiers Future Films, Pedro Almodovar's production banner El Deseo and Arcadia Capital have united to bring an adaptation of "The Ice Storm" author Rick Moody's best-selling novel "Purple America" to the big screen. The adaptation will be directed by award-winning Spanish commercials director Jorge Torregrossa and details the story of a freelance publicist who is summoned home to care for his mother who suffers from a neurological disease and demands an assisted suicide. Future Films and Arcadia Capital are putting together the finance structure for the film, with Future's in-house producer Kwesi Dickson ("Goodbye Bafana") steering the project alongside Almodovar collaborator and producer Esther Garcia, whose credits include 2006 Palme d'Or nominee "Volver."

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