GoldenEye star Pierce Brosnan and director Martin Campbell are set to reunite on an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s 1950 novel Across the River and Into the Trees, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.
The project has been written by Peter Flannery (Inspector George Gently) and Michael Radford (Il Postino), and follows “an American officer serving in Italy right after World War II, facing news of his terminal illness with stoic disregard. Determined to spend his weekend in quiet solitude, he commandeers a military driver to facilitate a simple duck hunting trip and a visit to his old haunts in Venice. As his plans begin to unravel, a chance encounter with a young countess begins to kindle in him the hope of renewal.”
Brosnan and Campbell are currently working together on the action thriller The Foreigner, which is expected to wrap next month. Production on Across the River and Into the Trees will then get underway in October.
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Originally published February 12, 2016. Updated April 14, 2018.
