Focus Features will finance, produce and distribute the next film of writer-director team behind 2006’s drama “Half Nelson”, which won a best actor Oscar nomination for Ryan Gosling.The specialty division of Universal Pictures has tackled “It’s a kind of History of Humor,” a coming of age comedy-drama that Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden are directed from a script he wrote.
“History” focuses on a period of 15 years of age who is struggling with depression and controls himself in a psychiatric hospital, but is in the room with adults. Develops a series of colorful and dramatic relationships with adults and a girl of her age.
“History” is based on a young-adult novel by Ned Vizzini, a 450-page volume that won critical acclaim when Miramax Books published in 2006.
The producers intend to launch the film with a name promoted by adults and a whole series of discoveries of adolescence functions.
Fleck and Boden gained fame with his first feature, “Half Nelson”, which told the story of several students from New York City and dedicated, but his crack-addicted teacher (Gosling).
The couple were also immigrants from behind the baseball drama “Sugar,” which caused a stir at Sundance in 2008 and whose screenplay was nominated for a Spirit Award.
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