Once he’s finished being all butlery and snarktastic to Christian Bale in The Dark Knight Rises, Michael Caine is looking to move on to something a little more romantic, taking on the lead in** Mr Morgan’s Last Love**.
German director Sandra Nettelbeck, the writer/director behind Mostly Martha and, more recently, 2009's Helen, has adapted Francoise Dorner’s French novel La Douceur assassine (loosely translated as The Sweetness Murders). While she’s maintained the Parisian setting, she’s made the protagonist a retired, widowed American philosophy professor living in the city whose life is forever altered by meeting a much younger woman.
Of course, it’s not all croissants and roses – there’s heartbreak and unhappiness in their future too, which shouldn’t really be surprising considering that the book’s title comes from a quote used within: “I knew very well that the slightest attention to a man my age can be fatal. Indifference kills him, but the sweetness murders.”
With Caine’s name attached, the film’s producers will be pimping it at the Berlin Film Festival’s market, aiming to get it sold around the world. And with a thrifty $8.2 million budget, Nettelbeck is looking to start filming this August in Paris and Cologne.