Busy Burns on 'Holiday'
Thesp returns to indie roots
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Burns also is making an effort to return to his auteur roots, having just completed "Purple Violets," an indie drama he wrote and produced through his Marlboro Road Gang Prods. Burns stars with Selma Blair, Debra Messing and Patrick Wilson.
Next, he has a summer start date in the Hamptons and Montauk on his script "Five-Fourths," and he'll follow that project with the first leg of a trilogy, a multigenerational drama about a New York family of cops.
Both "Purple Violets" and "Five-Fourths" are financed by Lucky Day Pictures, and Burns is producing with Aaron Lubin, Margot Bridger and Lucky Day principals Pamela Schein Murphy and Nicole Marra.
In "Purple Violets," Blair plays a scribe struggling to meet unrealized expectations that she would become the next important American writer.
After establishing himself as an indie helmer with "The Brothers McMullen," Burns' acting career picked up with "Saving Private Ryan."
While acting, Burns spent his spare time writing in his trailer, enough to cover two years of films. First was "The Groomsmen," a pic he shot last year.
Once he edits "Purple Violets," Burns and his backers are aiming for a Toronto Film Festival premiere.
