In what will mark their second consecutive film examining the Jewish experience following 2009’s A Serious Man, Joel and Ethan Coen will write, direct and produce an adaptation of feted author Michael Chabon’s 2007 bestseller The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. Mega-producer Scott Rudin, who was behind the Coens’s No Country for Old Men as well as There Will Be Blood last year, helped bring the deal to fruition at Columbia Pictures (he also owns the rights to Chabon’s classic The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, read it if you still haven’t.) Chabon has alerted a fansite about his elation…
“I am, of course, over the moon about this, Chabon said. “They are [...]