John Steinbeck's The Log from the Sea of Cortez to Grace the Big Screen
NEW YORK, June 21, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robert Kanter announced today that he has acquired the exclusive world-wide documentary film rights to Nobel Prize recipient and celebrated author John Steinbeck's non-fiction work, The Log from the Sea of Cortez. Through his production shingle, Sardine Boat Pictures, Kanter will recreate and film the six-week voyage Steinbeck took around the Sea of Cortez in which he and his good friend marine biologist Ed Ricketts catalogued over 500 species of fauna and discovered about 50 new species.
"I am humbled by the rare opportunity to honor and interpret Steinbeck's work for the screen," Kanter said. " It is one of the few Steinbeck books that has not been adapted as a motion picture and I hope to do it justice."....