Uma Thurman, Anthony Hopkins and Phoebe Dynevor have been cast in Richard Eyre’s upcoming ‘The Housekeeper’.
Said to be an “evocative romance fictionalizing the inspiration behind Daphne Du Maurier’s “Rebecca,” the film is set in the mystic, brooding and wild landscape of Cornwall. The rugged Atlantic foot of England, where Danni (Thurman), the 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.
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Eyre will take the helm on a script penned by the bestselling author Rose Tremain, based on her own short story and forthcoming novel. The film is being produced by Julia Taylor-Stanley and Kevin Loader.
Commenting on his upcoming feature Eyre said “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.”
