After lingering for a while in stasis, the adaptation of Annie Barros and Mary Ann Schaffer's The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society finally seems to be picking up some momentum again, with Mike Newell directing and Lily James scoring the lead last month. The filmmakers have found her a co-star in Game Of Thrones veteran Michael Huisman.
Adapted by writer/director Don Roos from the 2009 tome with a more recent draft by Tom Bezucha, the film will see James play journalist Juliet Ashton, who wrote magazine columns during World War II. In the aftermath of the conflict, she’s contacted by Channel Islander Dawsey Adams (Huisman), who tells her the intriguing tale of the book society formed to help undercut the Nazi presence on Guernsey. Ashton decides to investigate, starts communicating with Adams and romance blossoms… At least until Adams agrees to a fight with a towering, muscle-laden brute, who promptly crushes his sk... No, that's something else.
There's no sign yet of when the movie will kick off shooting, but Huisman has been keeping himself busy with several new acting gigs, including Janusz Kaminski's American Dream.
Lily James to star in The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society