 Barry Sonnenfeld has teamed with Cherry Road Films for his longtime passion project, Don DeLillo's "White Noise", which he will direct and produce.
He will also direct Donald Westlake's "Money for Nothing", with "Taxi" scribe Jim Kouf aboard to adapt.
Sonnenfeld first optioned "White Noise" -- winner of the 1985 National Book Award -- in 1999, while still based at Disney with then-partner Barry Josephson. Stephen Schiff adapted the script. After the Disney option lapsed, Scott Rudin optioned the book for Sonnenfeld. When that term ended, the filmmaker teamed with Cherry Road.
Prior to Sonnenfeld's involvement, a "White Noise" movie was set up at HBO and at James Brooks' Gracie Films.
According to Sonnenfeld, casting will begin immediately.
"White Noise" is a dark comedy in which a professor must contend with a wife who's possibly drug-addled, four kids who are too progressive for anyone's good and a chemical plant that has accidentally released a cloud of potentially lethal gas.
"Money for Nothing" is likewise a dark comedy, but about a young New Yorker who discovers a foreign rogue group has mistakenly identified him as a sleeper agent.
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