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December 08, 2013
SAFE FROM THE SEA to be a Movie
In an article entitled Los Angeles filmmaker scouts North Shore, the Duluth News Tribune reports that filmmakers from a Los Angeles production company will use the North Shore as the backdrop for the movie adaptation of Peter Geye’s award-winning novel, Safe from the Sea.
It goes on to state that Lenny Beckerman of Hello! Films said he expects to begin shooting in April, 2014. and that he currently is casting the three principal roles and will look locally for extras.
“We’re definitely going to make the movie there,” Beckerman said. “The book takes place there, and the area is very significant to the story.”
Geye’s 2009 debut novel, Safe from the Sea, published by Unbridled Books, is the story of a stormy father-son relationship and a challenging request the former makes of the latter at the end of the retired seaman’s life. It includes the father’s vivid recount of the tragic, life-changing shipwreck of a Lake Superior ore boat.
Safe from the Sea was the Winner of the 2010 Indie Lit Award for Fiction and the Winner of the 2010 Northeast Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. The book also received top reviews from Library Journal, The New York Times Review of Books, and Booklist.
Peter Geye received his MFA from the University of New Orleans and his PhD from Western Michigan University, where he was editor of Third Coast. He was born and raised in Minneapolis and continues to live there with his wife and three children. After Safe from the Sea, Geye followed with his equally impressive and likewise critically acclaimed novel, The Lighthouse Road, which is also set in the harsh climates of North Shore.
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