LaBute Adapting "Burnt Orange Heresy" for Screen | Playbill

Related Articles
News LaBute Adapting "Burnt Orange Heresy" for Screen Tony nominated playwright Neil LaBute will pen the screen adaptation of Charles Willeford's 1971 neo-noir crime novel "Burnt Orange Heresy."
//assets.playbill.com/editorial/d21df2898971f5ed14abdbc228353855-labute200.jpg
Neil LaBute Photo by Aubrey Reuben

According to Variety, LaBute (Reasons to Be Pretty, Fat Pig) will also direct the film that traces a conniving Miami art critic who takes a job for an art collector. William Horberg ("The Kite Runner") is producing the film following his collaboration with LaBute on "Death at a Funeral."

LaBute's plays include Reasons to Be Pretty, New Testament, Helter Skelter, Second of Pleasure, The Mercy Seat, The Distance From Here, In a Dark Dark House, Autobahn, bash: latter-day plays, The Shape of Things, and the films "In the Company of Men," "Your Friends and Neighbors," "Nurse Betty," "Possession" and "Wicker Man."

 
RELATED:
Today’s Most Popular News:
 X

Blocking belongs
on the stage,
not on websites.

Our website is made possible by
displaying online advertisements to our visitors.

Please consider supporting us by
whitelisting playbill.com with your ad blocker.
Thank you!