I still remember when Ethan Hawke took a sabbatical from acting and took on writing – his next role might not be much of stretch. Hawke and career hotter than an iron Kristin Scott Thomas will take on the lead roles in a film that should signify the return of Pawel Pawlikowski (he has been dabbling on many projects that never came to fruition (see here). Shooting is set to start in April for The Woman in the Fifth. Sounds like the real deal folks!
Based on Douglas Kennedy’s novel – a set in Paris supernatural thriller, Hawke plays an American writer in Paris named Harry Ricks who arrives in the city on a bleak January morning he is a broken man. He is running away from a failed marriage and a dark scandal that ruined his career as a film lecturer in a small American university. With no money and nowhere to live, Harry swiftly falls in with the city’s underclass, barely scraping a living while trying to finish the book he’d always dreamed of writing.
He embarks on an affair with an elegant and mysterious widow named Margit Kadar (Thomas) and who might have something to do with the murders that start taking place around him.
Memento Films is in Berlin with the film – which will be produced by Haut Et Court and co-financed by Film4.
