Toni Collette, Gillian Anderson, Joanna Lumley and Riccardo Scamarcio will join Clive Owen in the cast of “Andorra,” the upcoming film by veteran Australian director Fred Schepisi. This movie is based on the novel of the same name by Peter
Cameron, with a screenplay adapted by Cameron and producer Jamie
Bialkower.
The story follows an American who settles in the tiny country of
Andorra, meets an Australian couple and unsettles the other natives when
he becomes linked to a dead body floating in the harbor.
Clive Owen plays Alexander Fox, a bookseller who leaves the U.S. after a
personal tragedy to begin a new life abroad. The tiny country he
chooses – Andorra – is an idyllic escape, offering Alexander the chance
to reinvent himself. He quickly becomes entangled with Mrs. Dent
(Collette), an Australian who shares a first name, a large dog and a
volatile secret with her husband, and Mrs. Quay (Lumley), the kayaking
matriarch of an Andorran dynasty who seems to recall him from long ago.
As Alexander finds comfort in the company of her daughter, Miss Quay
(Anderson), the mystery of Fox origin deepens. A woman’s body is found
soon after his arrival in Andorra and the local lieutenant, Afgroni
(Scamarcio) becomes strangely convinced that he is responsible. With his
past threatening to envelop his newfound paradise, Fox finds himself in
a crisis of conscience and identity, in a foreign country he may never
be able to escape from.
Production is scheduled to commence in Italy next April.
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Gillian Anderson is joining Glenn Close, Christina Hendricks, Max Irons and Stefanie Martini, among others, to star in an upcoming adaptation of Christie’s
whodunit “Crooked House,” which has started shooting in and around London.
The film is to be directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner and
written by Julian Fellowes ( “Downton Abbey”), Tim Rose
Price, and Paquet-Brenner. Producers are Joe Abrams of Brilliant Films,
James Spring of Fred Films, and Sarah Wood.
In the movie adaptation, Irons will
play Charles Hayward, a private detective trying to solve a murder whose
suspects include Sophia, his former lover, played by Martini. The cast
also includes Terence Stamp as a chief inspector and Honor Kneafsey, Hendricks, Close, and Anderson as
members of the dead man’s household