{"id":1440,"date":"2023-01-16T17:36:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2023-01-16T17:36:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:36:50","slug":"leonard-cohen-tv-drama-who-by-fire-set-with-shtisel-writer-yehonatan-indursky-variety-nov-28-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2023\/01\/16\/leonard-cohen-tv-drama-who-by-fire-set-with-shtisel-writer-yehonatan-indursky-variety-nov-28-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Cohen TV Drama, \u2018Who by Fire,\u2019 Set With \u2018Shtisel\u2019 Writer Yehonatan Indursky (Variety, Nov. 28, 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By K.J. Yossman for Variety<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonard Cohen<\/a>\u2019s 1973 visit to the frontlines of the Yom Kippur war is set to be dramatized in a new limited TV series from\u00a0Keshet International<\/a>\u00a0and Sixty-Six Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWho by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai\u201d is an adaptation of Matti Friedman\u2019s book of the same name, which tells the story of Cohen\u2019s 1973 concert on the frontlines of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn October 1973 the poet and singer Leonard Cohen \u2013 39 years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end \u2013 traveled to the Sinai desert and inserted himself into the chaos and blood of the Yom Kippur War,\u201d reads the logline. \u201cMoving around the front with a guitar and a pick-up team of local musicians, Cohen dived headlong into a global crisis and met hundreds of fighting men and women at the worst moment of their lives. Cohen\u2019s audience knew his songs might be the last thing they heard, and those who survived never forgot the experience. The war tour was an electric cultural moment, one that still echoes today, \u2013 but a moment that only few knew about, until now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohen\u2019s trip was followed not long after by his album \u201cNew Skin for the Old Ceremony,\u201d in which he referenced the war, including \u201cLover, Lover, Lover,\u201d written at an Israeli air force base during fighting, and \u201cWho by Fire,\u201d which is inspired by a Yom Kippur prayer about human mortality. (The song was recently covered by PJ Harvey and used as the title track to Apple TV+ show \u201cBad Sisters.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series, which is set to shoot in Israel in 2024, will be written by Yehonatan Indursky (\u201cShtisel\u201d) and executive produced by Sixty-Six Media\u2019s Jill Offman, who brought the project to Keshet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KI\u2019s Atar Dekel and Keshet Broadcasting\u2019s Yuval Horowitz will also EP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a life-long Leonard Cohen fan, I loved Matti Friedman\u2019s brilliant book from the moment I read it,\u201d said Offman. \u201cWith Yehonatan at the helm and with my partners at Keshet, I am very much looking to bringing this his extraordinary story to the screen. I set up Sixty-Six Media looking for undiscovered international stories with universal resonance and it\u2019s an honour to have this as our first project.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By K.J. Yossman for Variety Leonard Cohen\u2019s 1973 visit to the frontlines of the Yom Kippur war is set to be dramatized in a new limited TV series from\u00a0Keshet International\u00a0and Sixty-Six Media. \u201cWho by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai\u201d is an adaptation of Matti Friedman\u2019s book of the same name, which tells the story of Cohen\u2019s 1973 concert on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}