"The Tudors" star Jonathan Rhys-Meyers has joined the cast of the French romantic drama "Belle Du Seigneur" reports Deadline.
Based on Albert Cohen’s bestselling novel, Meyers will play a Jewish diplomat who gets into a passionate affair with a married Swiss woman (Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova) on the eve of the Second World War. Marianne Faithfull also has a role.
Glenio Bonder makes his directing debut on the project which begins filming October 25th in Geneva before moving south to Italy.
James Dearden (Fatal Attraction) and Vincenzo Cerami (Life Is Beautiful) penned the script while Thierry de Navacelle, Jimmy de Brabant and Jean Luc Van Damme will produce.
Based on Albert Cohen’s bestselling novel, Meyers will play a Jewish diplomat who gets into a passionate affair with a married Swiss woman (Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova) on the eve of the Second World War. Marianne Faithfull also has a role.
Glenio Bonder makes his directing debut on the project which begins filming October 25th in Geneva before moving south to Italy.
James Dearden (Fatal Attraction) and Vincenzo Cerami (Life Is Beautiful) penned the script while Thierry de Navacelle, Jimmy de Brabant and Jean Luc Van Damme will produce.
- 9/3/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers will play a Jewish diplomat who gets into a passionate affair with a married Swiss woman, played by Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova (Clash of the Titans), on the eve of the Second World War. Marianne Faithfull also appears. First-time director Glenio Bonder starts filming October 25 on location in Geneva, Switzerland and then in Italy. James Dearden (Fatal Attraction) and Vincenzo Cerami (Life Is Beautiful) have written the script, based on Albert Cohen’s bestselling French novel. Bonder is a commercials director whose clients include Calvin Klein and British Airways. Thierry de Navacelle, Jimmy de Brabant (co-producer Girl With a Pearl Earring), with Jean Luc Van Damme (Goodbye Bafana) co-producing. Stealth Media Group, the Los Angeles and Brighton-based sales agency, is handling international distribution.
- 9/3/2010
- by TIM ADLER
- Deadline London
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