Martin Campbell helped Pierce Brosnan kick off his stint as Bond with GoldenEye and they've reunited recently to shoot Jackie Chan action thriller The Foreigner, so it makes sense that they'd keep the collaboration going with a potential new project. They want to adapt Ernest Hemingway's novel Across The River And Into The Trees.
It certainly sounds like a change of pace for the pair, who have been more used to blowing things up (including a bus on Lambeth Bridge at the weekend for The Foreigner that scared some locals and tourists – see the tweet below), as it's a much quieter story.
Across The River, which was published in 1950, marked the last full-length book from the author. Peter Flannery and Michael Radford have adapted the script, which sees an American officer serving in Italy after World War II, who learns he's suffering from a terminal illness. Determined to find some isolation, he commanders a driver to take him on a duck hunting trip and to his old stomping grounds in Venice. But then he crosses paths with a young countess and he starts to think there might be more life left in him yet.
All being well, Campbell will start rolling the cameras this October in Venice. In addition to The Foreigner, Brosnan will be seen in revenge thriller I.T., which is currently chugging through post-production.