It has just been announced that John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, (an Oprah Book Club selection) will be adapted for the big screen by the team that brought us The Hunger Games. According to Deadline.com, the film will be divided into two parts.
Oscar winning actrerss Jennifer Lawrence will play the manipulative mother of feuding twin sons, Caleb and Aron. Jo Van Fleet won an Oscar for that role in Elia Kazan’s 1955 classic adaptation. Also in the works is a new adaptation of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath headed by Steven Spielberg.
This sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence. (via Amazon)
