Sam Okun Options Remake, Sequel Rights To Oscar-Nominated Director Otto Preminger’s Films ‘Anatomy Of A Murder’ And ‘Advise & Consent’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Producer Sam Okun and his Sam Okun Productions banner have optioned worldwide film and TV remake and sequel rights to a pair of classic films directed and produced by three-time Oscar nominee Otto Preminger: 1959’s Anatomy of a Murder and 1962’s Advise & Consent.The former courtroom drama based on Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D.
Voelker’s novel watched as an upstate Michigan lawyer defended a soldier who claimed he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife.
The drama starring James Stewart, Lee Remick and Ben Gazzara landed seven Academy Award nominations upon its release, including Best Picture, Screenplay and Actor.Advise & Consent was a political thriller based on Allen Drury’s 1959 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, in which the polarizing search for a new Secretary of State had far-reaching consequences.
Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Burgess Meredith and Gene Tierney starred in the film, which was nominated for a BAFTA Award and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or.Okun and his development team led by Sam Okun Productions VP Lachlan Towle will immediately begin their search for writers-directors to update each of the classic films for film and television.
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