Joe Wright to direct ANNA KARENINA
For lovers of sweeping love stories, good news. Focus Features announced plans for an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's great novel ANNA KARENINA to be directed by Joe Wright and adapted for the screen by playwright Tom Stoppard. Keira Knightley (who has worked with Joe Wright before on PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and ATONEMENT) will star as Anna, with Jude Law appearing as Anna's husband Aleksei Karenin; and Aaron Johnson as Count Vronsky. The film will also star Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Emily Watson, Olivia Williams and Ruth Wilson. Focus Features CEO James Schamus commented, "Joe Wright is a master filmmaker, and with Tom Stoppard's brilliant screenplay this Anna Karenina will be full of both pageantry and emotion. To realize Joe's vision, we have the perfect producing partners in Working Title and Paul Webster, whose acumen is unsurpassed. With Keira Knightley playing this iconic role and a splendid cast supporting her, today's moviegoers will be drawn to this powerful story." The film will be produced by Working Title and will start production this month in the U.K. and Russia
Source: Focus Features
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