Blue Valentine helmer Derek Cianfrance appears to have found a female lead for his next project. The Hollywood Reporter today brings word that Rachel Weisz is in talks to star opposite Michael Fassbender in the upcoming The Light Between Oceans.
The film, planned to shoot in Australia, is based on M.L. Stedman’s debut novel, officially described as follows:
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a days journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a babys cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a gift from God, and against Toms judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.
Weisz most recently starred as the witch Evanora in Sam Raimi’s Oz The Great and Powerful.
David Heyman (Harry Potter) will produce for Heyday Films with Jeffrey Clifford. Rosie Allen shepherded the project to Heyday and will executive produce.
You can check out a video on the book in the player below:
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