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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