Broadway's A Steady Rain to Fall on the Big Screen

The Broadway-bound A Steady Rain, starring Hollywood leading men Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig, will make its way to the big screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, playwright Keith Huff has sold the film rights to the drama to current stage producers Frederick Zollo, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. A Steady Rain, directed by John Crowley, begins previews September 10 at the Gerald Shoenfeld Theatre with opening set for September 27. No intended release date for the film has been announced at this time.

Huff will reportedly adapt the story of two Chicago cops in turmoil for the screen himself. According to a synopsis by Chicagos Dramatists, where the play had its professional world premiere in 2007, A Steady Rain follows what happens when two policemen return a panic-stricken Vietnamese boy to a man claiming to be the boy’s uncle during a routine domestic disturbance call. When the man is revealed to be a cannibalistic serial killer and the boy his latest victim, the men’s friendship is put to the test when one of them has to take the fall.

The 90-minute-long play was first performed in 2006 at New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater. After its premiere production, it was remounted in February 2008 at Chicago’s Royal George Theatre, winning Jefferson Awards for Best New Work and Best Production.

A Steady Rain is the first in a trilogy of plays by Huff, and is followed by The Detective’s Wife and Tell Us of the Night. While Craig and Jackman have not been cast in Rain’s film version, producers may be eyeing the complete set of works as a franchise for both stars.