Ethan Hawke Plays "A Late Quartet"

Ethan Hawke always has been an actor who chooses his projects carefully--when he chooses a role, you know he is invested in it. For his next project, Hawke will play a violinist in the orchestral-themed romance drama "A Late Quartet."

According to Variety, the story follows the members of a string quartet who have performed together for 25 years and have to adjust to one of them retiring due to Parkinson's disease.

Hawke will portray the second violinist whose desire for more solos leads him to have an affair with his jogging partner, leaving him remorseful and saddened by the state of his marriage.

Yaron Zilberman's directing from a script he co-wrote with Seth Grossman.

Hawke has been one of my favorite actors for some time and the fact that he's working on this project is enough for me to be interested. The story sounds unique and in a world full of reboots and sequels, something fresh is a positive thing.

Hawke recently directed the Off Broadway play "A Lie of the Mind" for the New Group and just wrapped production on "The Woman in the Fifth."

Ethan Hawke Counts "Numbers"

Ethan Hawke has signed on to the sub-$10 million CIA thriller "The Numbers Station" for Content Film International says Variety.

According to Variety: The film “The Numbers Station,” directed by Kasper Barfoed and starring Ethan Hawke, has been acquired for worldwide distribution by ContentFilm International. The acquisition was announced at Cannes on Sunday.

Hawke plays Emerson, a disgraced black ops agent tasked with a dead-end job protecting 20-year-old Katherine, the code operator for a small CIA broadcast station in the middle of the Nevada desert. Emerson’s mission is simple: protect Katherine. Keep her safe and keep her secure. When the station is under attack, their priority is to make it out alive.

Ethan Hawke has been one of my favorite actors for a while, but he hasn’t taken on a really decent role for a while, so hopefully this one will turn out to be another quality performance like he put on in “Training Day”. I loved him in both “Gattaca” and “Assault on Precinct 13”, and I think he has the perfect look and style to play a disgraced former agent.

Principal photography on the film will begin in September.