{"id":7972,"date":"2009-12-11T19:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T03:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=7972"},"modified":"2009-12-11T19:55:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T03:55:51","slug":"abrams-looks-to-produce-mccann-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/12\/abrams-looks-to-produce-mccann-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrams Looks To Produce McCann Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong> and author <strong>Colum McCann<\/strong> are negotiating to work out a deal to produce McCann&#8217;s latest novel, <em>Let the Great World Spin<\/em>, which was published in June.<\/p>\n<p>If a deal is worked out, McCann will adapt the screenplay of his National Book Award-winning fifth novel, which would be produced by Abrams at Paramount.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7974\" title=\"Abrams1208\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Abrams1208.jpg\" alt=\"Abrams1208\" width=\"192\" height=\"198\" \/>Let the Great World Spin<\/em> is an allegory of 9\/11 and its aftermath. The story is built around a real-life &#8220;artistic crime of the century&#8221;. In 1974, Frenchman <strong>Philippe Petit<\/strong> walked across a tightrope strung between the World Trade Center Towers, an illegal act.<\/p>\n<p>Characters in the story include: a young Irish monk living among prostitutes in the Bronx, a group of Park Avenue mothers mourning their sons who were killed in Vietnam, and a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother walking the streets with her teenage daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.J. Abrams and author Colum McCann are negotiating to work out a deal to produce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[2407,3009,3008],"class_list":["post-7972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-abrams","tag-let-the-great-world-spin","tag-mccann"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7976,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions\/7976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}