Film and Stage Adaptations
A script was completed by Dayan Ballweg in about 2003 and a planned film adaptation was announced at that time. By early 2007, Kevin Costner and Meg Ryan were attached to the project. It was slated for release in 2010, but has been pushed back with no known release date as of March 2012.
Playwright Matthew Spangler adapted Tortilla Curtain for the stage. It received its world premiere production at the San Diego Repertory Theatre in March/April 2012.
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Famous quotes containing the words film and/or stage:
“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
—Ingmar Bergman (b. 1918)
“The Stage but echoes back the publick Voice.
The Drama’s Laws the Drama’s Patrons give,
For we that live to please, must please to live.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)