Sony Pictures' "All the King's Men" will be released nationally on September 22nd 2006, it was announced today by Jeff Blake, Vice Chairman Sony Pictures Entertainment. The date is around nine months after its originally scheduled release of December 2005.
Based on Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "All the King's Men" is a classic of American literature that tells the story of an idealistic man of the people who soon becomes corrupted by success and caught between dreams of service and an insatiable lust for power. Warren's novel was inspired by the career of Louisiana governor Huey P. Long and had a profound effect on contemporary literature, serving as a model for some of the best-selling political novels of the past half-century.
With a screenplay written and directed by Zaillian, who received an Academy AwardŽ for his adaptation of Schindler's List, All The King's Men features an all-star cast including OscarŽ winner Sean Penn (Mystic River), Jude Law (Closer), Kate Winslet (Finding Neverland), James Gandolfini ("The Sopranos"), Mark Ruffalo (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April) and Academy AwardŽ winner Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs).
