Alan Parker's last two movies have done much to banish the memory of
Evita. I really enjoyed the grossly under-rated
Life of David Gale and if you put that movie with
Angela's Ashes, the director is once again at a level he was at in the 1980's.
Variety report that Parker has attached himself to
Coram Boy, a feature film adaptation of Jamila Gavin's novel of the same name.
Novel, winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, is an epic adventure about two orphans -- one rescued from an African slave ship, the other the abandoned son of the heir to a great estate. The duo are raised in Britain's Coram hospice in 1741.
No word on whether this will be his next feature film. He had been attached to direct
Charlize Theron in
The Ice at the Bottom of the Sea but there's been no word on that movie for quite some time now.