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Michael Shannon To Make Directorial Debut On Adaptation Of Brett Neveu’s Play ‘Eric Larue’

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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Shannon, is set to make his directorial debut with Eric Larue, which is based on the Brett Neveu play.

The play debuted at A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago in 2002, where Michael Shannon is a founding member. Neveu is also adapting the script.Prior to the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v Wade, the film was scheduled to shoot in Arkansas.

Since the Federal Court’s overturn, a decision in which Arkansas’ Attorney General has certified and upheld, Act 180 of 2019 has been triggered to go in effect, banning nearly all abortions in Arkansas, including cases of rape and incest.

In response to this, sources tell Deadline the filmmakers have withdrawn production from the state and will now be shooting in and around Wilmington, North Carolina.For Neveu, Eric Larue‘s origin as a play was in response to the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School – a harrowing and unimaginable massacre in United States History.

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