FILM NEWS
THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE by Avi will begin filming very shortly!!!
See article below from http://www.variety.com/
Danny DeVito will direct “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle,” setting Morgan Freeman, Pierce Brosnan and Saoirse Ronan.
DeVito wrote the script, an adaptation of the bestselling young adult novel written by Avi. The film is in pre-production and will begin shooting in September.
Ronan will play a daring girl who makes a transatlantic crossing in the 1830s from England to America, and finds herself caught between a ruthless captain and a mutinous crew.
HandMade Films will finance production along with Gotham-based property and hotel group Plaza Productions International. HandMade Films International will handle worldwide sales, and CAA is repping domestic distribution rights.
Pic will be produced by Michele Weisler, Lori McCreary, Beau St. Clair and Patrick Meehan. Thomas D. Adelman and Hawk Koch will be exec producers.
Also producing is DeVito’s Jersey Films 2nd Avenue, Freeman and McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment and Irish DreamTime, the company run by Brosnan and St. Clair.
DeVito, who will not appear in the film, returns to young adult fare for the first time as director since “Matilda,” the 1996 adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel.
Ronan, who was Oscar-nominated for “Atonement,” plays the central character in the Peter Jackson-directed “The Lovely Bones.”
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