Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Book-to-Film: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows is on track to be made into a film.  Kenneth Branagh is set to direct and Kate Winslet is set to star as the title character, Juliet Ashton.  The film is being backed by 20th Century Fox and the script is being written by Don Roos.  This is a reunion of sorts for Branagh and Winslet, who previously worked together in Branagh's Hamlet, where he directed and played the title character, and Winslet played Ophelia.

 From IndieWire:
Winslet will play Julie Ashton, a magazine writer who begins a correspondence with a man from the Channel Islands (a British archipelago off the coast of France), who details life under Nazi occupation during World War Two, and the titular book group, a cover for resistance to the occupation. She travels to Jersey to help the islanders tell their stories, and romance, as you might imagine, blossoms.
I'm a fan of the Winslet/Branagh combo, and have high hopes for this one.  They're still in the planning stages, but this book was a pretty big hit, and people generally like seeing WWII adaptations, so I'm hopeful that this film progresses.  We'll see.  I hope they get someone like Gerard Butler or Ben Chaplin to play Dawsey.  Yes?


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