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by james macgregor | 30th March, 2001 | contact: james@netribution.co.uk

Film Four Books Hot Talent

FilmFour, the indie film channel plans to line up a number of high-profile book adaptations as a large section of their 2001 development slate, including projects by flavour of the moment directors such as Stephen Daldry, Lynne Ramsay, Jonathan Glazer and Peter Cattaneo.

Full Monty director Cattaneo is now in post-production for the channel on Lucky Break and is due to direct Pobby and Dingam, from a novel by Ben Rice. Lynne Ramsay is to write and direct The Lovely Bones, an adaptation of Alice Sebold's Wide Wide Heaven, after her critical hit with Ratcatcher.
It's the tale of a murdered teenage girl watching from on high as her death disrupts her grieving relatives lives.

Commercial supremo Jonathan Glazer, fresh from Sexy Beast's release, is tipped to direct Under the Skin, a sci-fi horror story centring on a Highland she-monster that preys on hapless wanderers.
Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry is attached to The Hiding Room, an adaptation of Jonathan Wilson's novel, an epic romance between a British intelligence officer and a Jewish refugee in wartime Cairo. Frederic Raphael is the screenwriter. Deputy Head of Production at FilmFour, James Wilson, who brought all these projects to the company, will produce.

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