I still have not seen John Curran’s The Painted Veil, but it sounds like his next film, a psychological thriller called Stone, will be far removed from the romantic drama. And to make things interesting, Curran has brought aboard his Painted Veil star Ed Norton and Robert De Niro for the film penned by Angus MacLachlan (Junebug).
Variety says the story centers on a correctional officer (De Niro) who is seduced by the wife of a convicted arsonist (Norton) up for parole.
The film won’t be going in front of cameras anytime soon, however, as Curran’s next film will be more along the lines of The Painted Veil as he will work with Keira Knightley on The Beautiful and the Damned, which concerns the turbulent marriage of alcoholic writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his mercurial wife Zelda Sayre (Knightley), who was schizophrenic. The tempestuous relationship, which unfolded in the high society of the Roaring ’20s, inspired some of the novelist’s works.
