Ethan Hawke to Star in A Late Quartet Film

Stage and screen star Ethan Hawke will appear in the new film A Late Quartet, to be directed by Yaron Zilberman’s from a script he co-wrote with Seth Grossman, according to Variety.

According to the publication, the film centers on a string quartet whose members 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.

Hawke received a Tony Award nomination for The Coast of Utopia and a Drama Desk Award nomination for The Winter’s Tale. He has worked extensively with the New Group, having recently directed their recent revival of Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind and will be represented this season as director of Thomas Nohilly’s Blood From a Stone.

He received an Academy Award nomination for his role in Training Day and for co-writing the screenplay for Before Sunset. He will soon be seen on the big screen opposite Kristin Scott Thomas in The Woman in the Fifth.