Rachel Weisz is in advanced talks to star in The Deep Blue Sea, reports Deadline London. And before you get all excited, no, it's not a remake of the 1999 Renny Harlin film about super-intelligent killer sharks. Bummer...
Actually, it's a film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's famed 1952 play depicting the closing stages of a hopeless, adulterous, socially inequitable love affair between an RAF war hero and a judge's wife. Having read Deadline's spoiler-heavy synopsis, it sounds really depressing, but also like a true Award Season candidate. The two go hand in hand, sometimes. (Weisz of course already has an Oscar for playing another tragic figure, Tessa Quayle, in The Constant Gardener.)
The Deep Blue Sea will be adapted and directed by Terence Davies, whose last film was the 2008 documentary about Liverpool Of Time and the City. 2000's The House of Mirth was the picture he made before that.
Weisz is also scheduled to play Jackie Kennedy for her husband Darren Aronofsky in a biopic of the President's wife; it's unsure which film will get underway first.
Source: Deadline London
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