Indie filmmaker Sayles says he'd love to make movie based on book set in Hoboken Published: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 3:00 AM By Summer Dawn Hortillosa/The Jersey Journal Hoboken resident and independent filmmaking legend John Sayles is set to make a film in the Mile Square City about Italian bricklayers, according to indiewire. Sayles, whom indiewire calls an ?icon of the American independent film movement,? is well known for his many movies, including ?Eight Men Out,? ?Matewan,? ?The Return of the Secaucus 7? and ?The Spiderwick Chronicles.? His newest film, ?Amigo,? which opens this week, explores the Spanish-American War and examines America?s military occupation of the Philippines. The Schenectady, N.Y., native told indiewire about the bricklayer project he would like to do, an adaptation of the Pietro Di Donato novel ?Christ in Concrete,? which is set in Hoboken. ?I would like to direct a book, a movie based on this book, ?Christ In Concrete,? one of the great American novels about the immigrant experience, in this case Italian. They?re bricklayers, and its actually set in Hoboken. Pietro Di Donato lived in Hoboken when he wrote it,? Sayles told indiewire. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/revie ... 23BBC4951DFB4678382659EDE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_di_Donato http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_in_Concrete http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_Us_This_Day