Jeff Bridges is stepping up to take on Lois Lowrys The Giver alongside producer Nikki Silver, FirstShowing reports. The pair has been working toward bringing the young adult novel to the silver screen for years, but encountered a few substantial hurdles along the way including Warner Bros acquisition of the movie rights back in 2007. But this week things are working in Bridges favor, much to our delight.
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Bridges originally envisioned his father, the late Lloyd Bridges, in the title role. Now, at sixty-one, the junior Bridges feels ready for The Giver. The 1993 Newbery Award-winning novel by Lois Lowry tells the story of a boy named Jonas, afloat in a utopian society where all appears perfect until he inherits the lifelong position of Receiver of Memory. Young Jonas is tasked with spending his twelfth year with The Giver, a man who holds all memories of the way things were prior to the societys utopian switch, and who, in his wise, old way, will train Jonas to do the same, disillusioning him once and for all.
