Uma Thurman, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Phoebe Dynevor are starring in a big new project!
Notes on a Scandal director Richard Eyre will helm The Housekeeper, a romance that fictionalizes the inspiration behind Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca, via Variety.
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The script is being written by bestselling author Rose Tremain, based on her own short story and forthcoming novel.
Here’s a plot summary: The Housekeeper is set in the mystic, brooding and wild landscape of Cornwall, the rugged Atlantic foot of England, where Danni (Thurman), housekeeper at Manderville Hall — a grand and historic house owned by the wealthy and widowed Lord DeWithers (Hopkins) — falls prey to the glance of a young and beautiful visitor, the novelist Daphne Du Maurier (Dynevor). For one, their affair is an all-consuming love, for the other an intoxicating realization of her secret longings.”
“Rose Tremain’s story grapples with love, fear, fiction, desire, ambition, death and legacy — perhaps epic, whilst providing us with the delicacy of most complex, nuanced characters and unexpected shifts in audience sympathy,” the director said in a statement.
“The cast and I hold in our palm a story as rich and turbulent as the landscape that it inhabits, with Manderville Hall holding secrets and emotional intrigue within its historic walls.”
