Empire Rising Movie Updates

Tue., Aug. 27, 2013

from darkhorizons.com

Guy Ritchie Considers 'Empire Rising'

Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up the film rights to Thomas Kelly's 2006 novel Empire Rising.

• added romance as genre
• added Warner Bros. Pictures as a distributor
• added Thomas Kelly as screenwriter to the film's credits
• added a synopsis

• Set in 1930, the ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men who come to work high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in America and his pledge to... show all gather money and arms for the Irish republican cause. When he meets Grace Masterson, an alluring artist who is depicting the great skyscraper's rise from her houseboat on the East River, Briody's life suddenly turns exhilarating--and dangerous--for Grace is also a paramour of Johnny Farrell, Mayor Jimmy Walker's liaison with Tammany Hall and the underworld.

• added Guy Ritchie as director (Rumored) to the film's credits
• changed the production status to Announced
• created the movie profile