Give Me Proof

Welsh marvel, Anthony Hopkins, is but a hair's breadth from being recruited for John Madden's latest film, Proof. Hopkins would join Gwyneth Paltrow in the film based on David Auburn's award-winning broadway production. A four-person play, the story centres around Paltrow's Catherine, facing her twenty-fifth birthday after years of taking care of her gifted mathematician father after he became incapacitated by a nervous breakdown. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Hal, a former student of Hopkins, who has discovered a brilliant mathermatical proof among his mentor's incoherent notes. Hope Davis will play the part of Claire, Catherine's estranged sister. Not a million miles from the likes of Shine and A Beautiful Mind, Proof could well end up being Oscar-fodder if all goes according to plan. Paltrow has already knocked critics' socks off with her performance in the theatrical version but, with the play set entirely on the back porch of a house, how well this will adapt to the screen remains to be seen.