Backpack

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Friday 16th May 2003: Backpack Update:
British production company 4Way Pictures (set up by director Antonia Bird,
actor Robert Carlyle, novelist Irvine Welsh and broadcaster Mark Cousins)
has snapped up the rights to Emily Barr's novel Backpack. Barr, a
British-based columnist and travel writer, penned a novel about a young
woman's compulsive desire to travel to exotic places and an encounter with a
serial killer. Bird is developing the project and plans to direct. 4Way is
also developing Jamie McGillivray as a co-production with John Sayles, who
wrote the script and will direct. Sayles will co-produce the movie through
his company Anarchists Convention with Maggie Renzi. Based on an idea from
Carlyle, the movie is a historical adventure set in 18th century Scotland
and North America. 4Way is also developing The Dope Priest with the UK Film
Council. Written by Nicholas Blincoe from his novel of the same name, the
project is billed as a daring romantic comedy exploring the complexity of
identity in Israel and the Palestine Authority. The company said it has
received an undisclosed amount of backing from BBC Films and Scottish Screen to develop projects from Welsh screenwriter Dean Cavanagh.

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