It seems that Steven Spielberg is in negotiations to acquire the rights to "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck.
«The grapes of wrathIt is a 1939 novel by John Steinbeck that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize a year later, the same year that John Ford took it to the movies with Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell and John Carradine.
Both Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks they are negotiating with the heirs of writer John Seinbeck to bring the novel back to the big screen more than seven decades later.
"The Grapes of Wrath" has gone down in history as a classic for reflecting in a very precise way what was the Great Depression in United States. It tells how a man returns to his family after leaving prison and when he arrives he finds that they have been expelled from their lands, so they go on a long road to try their luck in California.
Yes finally Spielberg brings «The Grapes of Wrath» to the big screen again, it will have the difficult task of living up to the classic of John Ford, a film that won two Oscars, best director and best supporting actress and was considered by the National Board of Review as the best film of the year.
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