Ethan Hawke will star in Yaron Zilberman’s indie-drama “A Late Quartet,” the story of a string quartet who have been together for 25 years but must now face one member’s retirement due to Parkinson’s disease.
Hawke will play the second violinist whose “desire for more solos leads him to have an affair with his jogging partner, leaving him remorseful and saddened by the state of his marriage.” Don’t worry, we’re not sure how that works either.
Zilberman will direct from a script he co-wrote with Seth Grossman with the film to be the helmer’s debut feature after his 2004 documentary about an Austrian woman’s swim team in the ’30s, “Watermarks.” Production is set to begin imminently with Hawke having recently wrapped on Pawel Pawlikowski’s “The Woman In The Fifth” which he stars in alongside Kristin Scott Thomas.
Hawke has been on a fascinating career path lately switching between directing and acting roles on stage (“A Lie Of The Mind,” “Blood From A Stone”) and an array of small, indie projects including upcoming action-thriller “The Numbers Station” and indie-drama “Second Coming” with Marion Cotillard and Mark Ruffalo. He is also, of course, continually shooting the long-term Richard Linklater untitled childhood project which will see him and Patricia Arquette star as parents of a child (Ellar Salmon) filmed over the course of 12 real years.
