The film, which will star Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, hasn’t even started production yet, but Ford adapted it from Austin Wright’s 1993 novel “Tony and Susan,” the story of a woman who, when reading her ex-husband’s first novel, realizes she needs to confront her own past as she gets caught up in the life of the novel’s protagonist.
Universal Pictures will help with distributing the film overseas.
This is a similar deal to the one Focus made for last year’s The Theory of Everything, which grossed $120 million worldwide and received five Oscar nominations with Eddie Redmayne receiving an Oscar for his performance. Before winning an Oscar for The King’s Speech, Colin Firth received a nomination for his performance in Ford’s A Single Man, which hit the festival circuit in 2009.
