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Leo & Kate board Mendes project

Published on March 23, 2007

Hubby Sam Mendes is setting up an old dancing partner for wife Kate Winslet in the book to screen adaptation of an acclaimed 1961 novel. Leonardo DiCaprio and Winslet will topline Revolutionary Road for DreamWorks Pictures.

Based on Richard Yates' novel, and scripted by Justin Haythe, this is a heart-rending and bleak tome, celebrated for its storytelling style, follows a seemingly happy suburban couple with two children in the mid-1950s who find themselves caught between their true desires and the pressure to conform — with explosive consequences.

John N. Hart, Scott Rudin, Bobby Cohen and Mendes will produce in association with BBC Films. Mendes begins lensing this summer. Haythe's first and only screenplay to date is The Clearing.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).