Producers hope to shoot the UK film this year.Josh O’Connor, Odessa Young, Olivia Colman and Colin Firth have signed to star Eva Husson’s romantic drama Mothering Sunday for the UK’s Number 9 Films and Film4.
Rocket Science is handling sales and introducing to buyers at this week’s Cannes virtual market.Mothering Sunday is based on Graham Swift’s novella of the same name which is set in 1924 in England.
Alice Birch has written the adaptation.
Her credits include the Bifa award-winning screenplay for William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth, Element Pictures’ TV series Normal People and HBO’s Succession.
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