EXCLUSIVE:Aidan QuinnandSteve Buscemiare working on a movie adaptation of the Sam Shepard playAges Of The Moon.
The two-hander follows a pair of old friends, Byron and Ames.
Shepards play was first staged in 2009 at the Abbey Theatre the national theater of Ireland.
(L- R) Steve Buscemi and Aidan QuinnAndy Kropa/Getty Images
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He broke out some details of the people on board.
We haveOren Moverman, the award-winning screenwriter and director.
My brother, the cinematographer Declan Quinn, will shoot it.
Derrick Tseng and Wren Arthur, who is Buscemis partner in Olive Prods., will also produce.
Screenwriter and director Moverman won an Emmy for the docWillie Nelson and Familyand an Academy Award nom forThe Messenger.
Aidan Quinn will direct and star alongside Buscemi.
Were going to shoot in Upstate New York.
We need that amount of sunlight and darkness because it would shoot in both.
His TV work includes a long stint on CBS dramaElementaryand appearances on other connection shows includingLaw & OrderandBlue Bloods.
A long list of movie credits includesLegends of the FallandDesperately Seeking Susan.
Production wraps next week on the Cuba Pictures and Metropolitan Films-produced six-parter.
It launches later this year on RTE and BBC One.
Cineflix Rights is handling U.S. and international sales.
