Coen Brothers to Adapt The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

Posted by Maggie Van Ostrand (maggie@filmschoolrejects.com) on February 15, 2008

The Coen brothers are to adapt Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Chabon’s bestseller, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, for the big screen, says the BBC. Chabon won the Pulitzer in 2001 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

Joel and Ethan Coen will write and direct the Alaskan murder mystery, set in a fictional Jewish settlement. It’s the story of an alcoholic detective’s pursuit of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy. Scott Rudin is already aboard the Sony-Columbia project.

The Coens’ latest film, No Country for Old Men, is nominated for eight Oscars, and won the BAFTA for Best Directors.

No casting decisions have yet been made.

Variety reports that the Coens will start on Chabon’s story after completing A Serious Man for British company Working Title.

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