Ecosse and Silverwood Films Involved in ‘On Green Dolphin Street’ Love Triangle

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.