U.K based Ecosse Films’ Douglas Rae and Robert Bernstein are teaming with Silverwood Films’s Lynette Howell (Blue Valentine) on the book-to-film, 20-million dollar adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ On Green Dolphin Street.
Written by Becoming Jane scribe Kevin Hood, Faulk’s tale is set in New York, Washington and a brief spell in Moscow, follows the love affair of Mary, an English rose, and Frank a Chicago journalist. Mary, who is married to diplomat Charlie, soon becomes torn between the love of these two men. A marriage drama with adultery set in the 1950’s reminds of Revolutionary Road, but this sounds slightly more ambitious – paralleling the conflicts of a love triangle with the inner (JFK vs. Nixon battle) and outer (Cold War) issues faced in the U.S. Faulks saw his Charlotte Gray made into a film, and the author recently penned a James Bond Ian Fleming novel (here’s our review).
Reading the lengthy book review, we find that the setting will include a winter shoot – so Canada and Moscow will serve as frigid backdrops. There’ll be three major parts here — two male supporting characters and expect to see an actress in her 30’s-40’s range topline the pic (older than Keira) and with some nice features as the character is described as a bored mother of two who would normally not settle for being a housewife.
