‘Downfall’ Director Oliver Hirschbiegel To Adapt Martin Suter’s Novel ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’
By Russ Fischer/Sept. 14, 2010 1:48 pm EST
And now he’ll reportedly also direct The Dark Side of the Moon, based not on the Pink Floyd album whose cover has adorned every dorm room in America at some point, but on the novel of the same name by Swiss author Martin Suter. (Which was admittedly titled as a gloss on the Floyd disc.)
The shoot should begin in the spring, says Variety, in Switzerland, France and Germany. The script is by David Marconi, of Live Free or Die Hard and Enemy of the State, so I’m guessing for now that this is an English-language production. No casting has been announced at this point; getting some names will help clear up the question of what language the film will feature.
The book does sound as if it is druggy enough to be linked to popular conceptions of the Pink Floyd record, as it follows a guy who drops out of society after a serious mushroom trip.
Here’s the synopsis, translated from the book’s page on the publisher’s site. Perhaps appropriately given the context, it’s a bit shambling:
