Field Explores "Beautiful Ruins"

"Little Children" director Todd Field is set to call action on an adaptation of author Jess Walter's
novel "Beautiful Ruins" says Vulture.

Set in 1962 off the Ligurian Sea on the Italian Coast, the story follows an American actress who comes to stay in a hotel owned by the family of a young man named Pasquale.

The filming of the lavish epic "Cleopatra" starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Rome kicks things off, with scenes also taking place in Hollywood and Florence.

Walter and Field will co-write the screenplay. Field, Brian Oliver, Tyler Thompson, Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody will produce.