By Academy Award winner James Marsh (Man on Wire) is set to direct an adaptation of Tom Bradby’s novel, Shadow Dancer. Marsh’s last project was the second installment of the BBC’s critically acclaimed Red Riding trilogy, entitled In the Year of Our Lord 1980. Variety reports that fellow Red Riding alum Rebecca Hall (In the Year of Our Lord 1974) may be joining the developing project in the lead role.
Since starring as the tortured wife of Christian Bale’s magician in 2006’s The Prestige, Hall has continued to increase her profile with star-making turns in Woody Allen’s Vicky Christina Barcelona and this year’s The Town. Hall would portray a member of an Irish family deeply embedded in IRA activities, who is forced to inform on her countrymen to MI:5 after a failed bombing attempt in London. According to the website for Unanimous Pictures, the film’s producer, Guy Pearce (Memento, The Hurt Locker) is also attached to the project.
Before it was optioned, the Shadow Dancer script–adapted by Bradby–was recognized by the fourth annual Brit List as one of the most promising screenplays circulating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
[via Variety…
Academy Award winner James Marsh (Man on Wire) is set to direct an adaptation of Tom Bradby's novel, Shadow Dancer. Marsh's last project was the second installment of the BBC's critically acclaimed Red Riding trilogy, entitled In the Year of Our Lord 1980. Variety reports that fellow Red Riding alum Rebecca Hall (In the Year of Our Lord 1974) may be joining the developing project in the lead role.
Since starring as the tortured wife of Christian Bale's magician in 2006's The Prestige, Hall has continued to increase her profile with star-making turns in Woody Allen's Vicky Christina Barcelona and this year's The Town. Hall would portray a member of an Irish family deeply embedded in IRA activities, who is forced to inform on her countrymen to MI:5 after a failed bombing attempt in London. According to the website for Unanimous Pictures, the film's producer, Guy Pearce (Memento, The Hurt Locker) is also attached to the project.
Before it was optioned, the Shadow Dancer script–adapted by Bradby–was recognized by the fourth annual Brit List as one of the most promising screenplays circulating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
[via Variety; via Unanimous Pictures]