NY Times Talks Up The Informers

The NY Times has an article about The Informers film.

In Mr. Ellis's account, Mr. Jarecki first conceived the idea of carving a movie from "The Informers," a book of interlocking stories that was largely written in the early 1980s, but first published in 1994. The two eventually wrote a screenplay of 150 pages - much too long, by Hollywood standards - that included among its subplots a tale about vampires who appear, in the stories, to be quite real.

The vampires were dropped. The resulting film, set to be the first release from Senator, next April, now centers on a pair of fractured families, of the sort that once met for dinner at Spago.

It also takes side trips into the lives of a television newscaster, played by Ms. Ryder, and a particularly reprehensible character played by Mr. Rourke in his last role before starring in "The Wrestler," a picture that has unexpectedly pushed him toward the front of this year's Oscar race.