Currently enjoying some high-profile villainy as The Hunger Games' Coriolanus Snow, Donald Sutherland has just signed up for another adaptation of a rather different kids' book. He's joined the cast of Milton's Secret, from the book by Eckhart Tolle and Robert Friedman. Barnet Bain (the producer of What Dreams May Come) co-wrote the screenplay with Donald Martin and Sandra Cooper, and will direct.
Tolle is a spiritual public speaker and author, probably best known for his self-help book The Power Of Now. The slim Milton's Secret, published in 2009, was an attempt to translate his live-in-the-moment philosophy for a younger readership. The Milton of the title is the story's young protagonist, who learns to overcome his fear of bullies and other childhood nightmares by living in the moment, and ceasing to "project his past fears into the future".
Sutherland will play Milton's grandfather: a role previously occupied by Peter Fonda, who's had to drop out. There's no other cast announced yet, but pre-production is underway, for a shoot in Ontario in the autumn. The book is published by Hampton Roads.
from Empire News
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