{"id":57910,"date":"2020-11-13T02:55:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=57910"},"modified":"2020-11-15T22:22:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T04:22:15","slug":"hbo-adapts-oslo-tony-award-winning-play-about-peace-accords-into-original-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/hbo-adapts-oslo-tony-award-winning-play-about-peace-accords-into-original-film\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO adapts \u2018Oslo,\u2019 Tony Award-winning play about peace accords, into original film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 HBO has begun production on a film adaptation of \u201cOslo,\u201d the Tony Award-winning play about secret meetings before the Oslo Accords that nearly brought peace between Israel and the Palestinians in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57972\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Oslo_play.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57972\" class=\"wp-image-57972 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Oslo_play-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Oslo_play-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Oslo_play.jpg 322w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 246px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 246\/300;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57972\" class=\"wp-image-57972 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Oslo_play-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Oslo_play-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Oslo_play.jpg 322w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-57972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Oslo&#8221; poster from Tony-winning play.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The film, which will air next year, stars Andrew Scott (of \u201cFleabag\u201d and \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d) and Ruth Wilson (\u201cThe Affair,\u201d \u201cMrs. Wilson\u201d) as the Norwegian husband and wife diplomats who arranged covert negotiation sessions between Israelis and Palestinians through back channels. Steven Spielberg and Marc Platt (father of Ben) are among the executive producers.<\/p>\n<p>Because of plausible deniability \u2014 contact between Israelis and the PLO was illegal \u2014not even Israel\u2019s foreign secretary at the time, Shimon Peres, was at first informed of the talks. The initial Israeli participants, two university professors, put their careers on the line to take part.<\/p>\n<p>Mona Juul and Terje R\u00f8d-Larsen shepherded the group, pleading with and prodding the distrustful negotiators to continue. Eventually the frosty feelings between them grew warmer and the two sides hammered out an important agreement called a Declaration of Principles.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the network\u2019s first telling of what ultimately proves a heartbreaking story. Two years ago it offered \u201cOslo Diaries,\u201d a documentary&nbsp; that resulted only in the sadly premature awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin was assassinated in 1995 by an Israeli gunman.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Israeli actors are involved in the project as well: Sasson Gabay (recently of Broadway\u2019s \u201cThe Band\u2019s Visit\u201d) and Itzik Cohen, Igal Naor and Salim Dau (all of \u201cFauda\u201d). J.T. Rogers, the playwright, wrote the screenplay, and it is directed by Tony-winning director Bartlett Sher.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"HBO%20adapts%20%E2%80%98Oslo%2C%E2%80%99%20Tony%20Award-winning%20play%20about%20peace%20accords%2C%20into%20original%20film\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139,7122],"tags":[8790,8795,10999,6781,9514],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57974,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57910\/revisions\/57974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}