Ages of the Moon

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Aidan Quinn & Steve Buscemi Working On Movie Adaptation Of Sam Shepard Play ‘Ages Of The Moon’

Aidan Quinn and Steve Buscemi are working on a movie adaptation of Sam Shepard play Ages Of The Moon. Quinn and Buscemi are working to get the indie project off the ground and have found their writer and cinematographer with a view to shooting this year.

The two-hander follows a pair of old friends, Byron and Ames. With bourbon in hand, and sitting on the front porch, they chew over decades of friendship and rivalry. Shepard’s play was first staged in 2009 at the Abbey Theatre – the national theater of Ireland. Quinn and Buscemi performed a reading of the play last year in the same venue before doing the same over three nights at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York this Jan.

“We had a great night in Dublin and I just fell in love with this piece so much that I’ve now bought the rights to it and we’re developing it as a screenplay,” Quinn told Deadline.

He broke out some details of the people on board. “We have Oren Moverman, the award-winning screenwriter and director. He’s doing the screenplay and going to produce it with Steve and myself and Steve’s company [Olive Productions]. My brother, the cinematographer Declan Quinn, will shoot it.”

Derrick Tseng and Wren Arthur, who is Buscemi’s partner in Olive Prods., will also produce. Screenwriter and director Moverman won an Emmy for the doc Willie Nelson and Family and an Academy Award nom for The Messenger.

Aidan Quinn will direct and star alongside Buscemi. Speaking to Deadline from the set of The Walsh Sisters, the RTE and BBC TV adaptation of Marianne Keyes’ bestselling novels, the actor said the hopes is that cameras roll later this year.

“We’re going to shoot in Upstate New York. It’s set on a porch late in summer, early fall, so if we’re going to find a location [there] we need it to film in August to early October. We need that amount of sunlight and darkness because it would shoot in both.”

Quinn acknowledged 2026 is a possibility if the pieces do not come together to hit the shooting window this year. His TV work includes a long stint on CBS drama Elementary and appearances on other network shows including Law & Order and Blue Bloods. A long list of movie credits includes Legends of the Fall and Desperately Seeking Susan.