Casting News
Alice in Changes; Rachel Weisz & Michael Shannon Takes Seats at Joshua Marston’s Table Drama
Gist: Weisz will play Alice, the intriguing guest introduced at a dinner party hosted by Tom (Shannon) and his wife, celebrating his birthday.Tom increasingly believes he knows Alice but by a different name and a different biography, and suspects that she’s not there entirely by coincidence. The evening spins into a highly-charged reunion between a man in need of making a change in his life and a woman who desperately wants to stop changing.
Worth Noting: Marston was one of the filmmakers who participated on New York, I Love You.
Do We Care?: We’re into emotional warfare and one-upmanship at the dinner table (seek out Mona Fastvold’s The Sleepwalker) and we can imagine just how much weight such a sequence can carry when you consider the discovery of someone retrofitting their identity. We’re expecting a high value original screenplay with Marston’s pedigree.