Steven Spielberg to Make Film Adaptation of A STEADY RAIN Starring Daniel Craig & Hugh Jackman

According to Darkhorizons.com, Steven Spielberg might helm a big screen adaptation of A STEADY RAIN, which ran on Broadway back in 2009. Hugh Jackman, who starred in the show alongside Daniel Craig just revealed at Comic Con that they will both likely star in the film.

A Steady Rain is a play by Keith Huff. With a plot similar to a real-life event involving Jeffrey Dahmer, it focuses on two Chicago policemen who inadvertently return a Vietnamese boy to a cannibalistic serial killer who claims to be the child's uncle. When he later becomes the man's latest victim, the lifelong friendship of the two men is threatened when it becomes clear someone must bear responsibility for their egregious failure to assess the situation accurately. The play alternates between two separate monologues and present-moment dialogue scenes.

A STEADY RAIN was first produced in 2006 at New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater. It had its professional world premiere in 2007 at Chicago Dramatists and was remounted in February 2008 at Chicago's Royal George Theatre winning Jefferson Awards for Best New Work and Best Production.

Following a number of staged and table readings and an off-Broadway workshop production, the play began previews at the Schoenfeld Theatre on September 10, 2009 and opened officially on September 29. Directed by John Crowley, it starred Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig, making his Broadway debut. Set and costume design was by Scott Pask, with lighting design by Hugh Vanstone. 

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