Now, after helming two shorts, he’s adding feature director to his list. Schamus is directing the 50s drama “Indignation,” which he is adapting from the Philip Roth novel. Principal photography starts this week in and around New York City.
Logan Lerman stars as Marcus Messner, the idealistic son of a humble kosher butcher (Danny Burstein) and his wife (Linda Emond) from Newark, New Jersey. When Marcus attends college in Ohio, he falls for a beautiful but troubled girl (Sarah Gadon), and gets into a confrontation with the school administration and its dean (Tracy Letts) over its sexual politics.
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