With
the 75th anniversary of John Steinbeck’s classic novel The Grapes of Wrath
coming up next year, a race to the rights for the adaptation or remake of the
John Ford film are currently underway. Leading the race is DreamWorks and Steven
Spielberg to produce, since he will be directing Bradley Cooper in American
Sniper, set to come out in 2015.
Novel’s
Description Via Amazon
“A
portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s
fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel
captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of
equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands
of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads,
who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised
land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against
the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a
drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision,
elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.”
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