Thursday, February 07, 2013

Firth Is Up To No Good In "Sleep"

Colin Firth has signed on to reteam with Nicole Kidman for the psychological thriller "Before I Go to Sleep" says Variety.


Based on S J Watson's debut bestselling novel, Kidman plays a north London woman who wakes up every morning with amensia. Her husband (Firth) tells her she suffered a trauma and she dare not leave home. One day she ignores this and sees a doctor (Mark Strong) who gives her a small digital recorder and urges her to play back her thoughts day after day. The process begins to reintegrate her mind, and in doing so she comes to realize that the man sleeping next to her isn't her husband.

Rowan Joffe ("Brighton Rock") will write the adapted screenplay and direct.

Ridley Scott, Liza Marshall, Mark Gill and Matthew O'Toole are producing the film.

Production starts later this momth.

Firth and Kidman did the biopic The Railway Man together

No comments: