Anne Hathaway has been busy putting together a new starring role. She’s been a producer on the adaptation of a book called The Lifeboat since at least 2013, but is in the process of locking down a director, with Anna Karenina’s Joe Wright now in talks.
William Broyles Jr., who knows a little bit about people stuck in difficult situations after writing Cast Away, is at work on the script. Charlotte Rogan’s historical novel focuses on Grace Winter, a young woman standing trial for murder in 1914.
As part of her testimony, Grace recalls how she and her new husband survived the sinking of a transatlantic ship called the Empress and ended up stranded in a lifeboat. Trouble is, there were too many people aboard, and the survivors starting to think about getting rid of one or two of them. Was Grace part of a plot? Or an innocent victim of a whispering campaign? The truth, we suspect, is still submerged. Submerged! Because it’s a lifeboat! No? Fine.
Wright is currently busy putting the finishing touches to Pan, which finds Hugh Jackman playing Blackbeard, Garrett Hedlund filling the role of a young Hook and Levi Miller as the titular Boy Who Would Never Grow Up. It’ll be in UK cinemas on October 16.`