Anna Karenina is being to look like an Atonement reunion with Joe Wright, Keira Khightley and Saoirse Ronan.
After taking a break to make the film Hanna (still the best movie I have seen in 2011), Joe Wright is back to his classically literary tricks. The director of Pride and Prejudice and Atonement will return to costumed drama for his next film, a star-studded adaptation of Leo Tolstoy‘s classic novel Anna Karenina. Already cast are Keira Knightley as the title character, Jude Law as her older husband and Aaron Johnson as her younger love. Wright is rounding out his ensemble with a solid list of names such as Saoirse Ronan, Kelly Macdonald, Olivia Williams, Matthew Macfadyen, Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough.
Macfadyen (Pride and Prejudice) will play Karenina’s brother, Macdonald (Trainspotting) his wife, and Ronan (Hanna) the wife’s sister. Williams (Rushmore) will play Johnson’s characters mother (still keeping track?), Gleeson, (Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter films) is a family friend named Levin and Riseborough (Happy Go Lucky) plays a character named Princess Betsy.
Anna Karenina, held as one of Tolstoy’s masterpieces and sometimes called one of the greatest novels ever written, is set in 19th Century Russia and follows a young woman married to an older man who gives into her desires to be with a younger man, setting off a chain reaction of personal devastation.
Production beings in September, with a release sometime in 2012.
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