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Focus finds the 'Netherland'

By Adnan Tezer Sep 17, 2009, 19:02 GMT

Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Sam Mendes' Neal Street Productions will team up with Focus Features to mount a feature adaptation of "Netherland," the Joseph O'Neill novel that Harpo optioned last year when it was published.

According to Variety, Christopher Hampton will write the script for a film that Mendes could possibly direct.

Mendes and his Neal Street partner Pippa Harris will produce with Harpo's Winfrey and Kate Forte. Neal Street has a first-look deal with Focus.

"Netherland" won O'Neill the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

The novel is set in New York City, where a lonely Dutch expatriate becomes infatuated with the sport of cricket and forms a bond to immigrant culture.

Hampton previously worked with Focus Features on "Atonement," earning an Oscar nomination for his script.

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