Josh Schwartz Writing and Directing New Bright Lights, Big City
Posted on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 by Brendon Connelly
OC, Chuck and Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz has spoken to Variety about his plans for a new film adaptation of Jay McInerney’s novel Bright Lights, Big City. The novel is a hip, wry and moral tale of night-life excess, featuring a 24-year old fact checker with literary ambitions and a taste for nose candy. The 1988 film version was scripted by McInerney himself and was the last film directed by James Bridges. That pretty good pedigree did lead to a pretty good film. Can the not-so-exciting Schwartz beat the odds and deliver a better picture? Here’s hoping.
One of Schwartz’ big decisions will be to either leave the film set in the 80s or drag it up to date (or, I dunno, he might decide to set it in the 70s or 90s or 1740s, but I don’t think any such thing is likely, interesting as it might be). So far, he says, he’s undecided.
