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Jean Doumanian Production will develop a film adaptation of Blackbird with powerful playwright David Harrower aboard to script the drama about the tussle between a middle aged man and the then underage girl with whom he had a relationship long before.

This project is just after news that the Production company announced the film based on the stage hit “August: Osage County” which another playwright Tracy Letts is adapting for the screen. Doumanian is the lead producer for this show.

The Blackbird headlined at Edinburgh Festival in 2005 and was then transferred to the London’s West End, where the well received run won the 2007 Olivier Award for new play. It was then produced once again by Broadway starring Jeff Daniels and Alison Pill.

In 2007 the Blackbird was taken up by Cate Blanchett at its Australian premier at the Sydney Theatre Company. Next summer it will be shown at the Chicago’s Victory Gardens.

“When I saw ‘Blackbird’ onstage, I was really struck by the raw, emotional intensity of David Harrower’s characters and their gripping story,” said Doumanian. The two character drama details the emotional clash when woman in her 20s show up suddenly at the office of an older man with who she had an affair when she was in her teens. The man had also changed his name in order to distance himself from the past.

Harrower will be penning the script for White Male Heart which stars Cillian Murphy. That is sure going to be another one of those films that will get unnoticed but we will surely review. His other works for the stage include “Knives in Hens” and adaptations of Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” Chekhov’s “Ivanov” and Brecht’s “The Good Soul of Szechuan.”