Given that the film bears the title The Grandmothers, you might be forgiven for assuming that it’s a quiet drama about old biddies pottering about, clucking over their cats or doing some knitting. But the film that Naomi Watts and Robin Wright have signed on for is something quite different.
You see, Coco Before Chanel’s Anne Fontaine is filming an adaptation Doris Lessing’s novel, which finds two lifelong friends who cause a scandal when they fall for each other’s teenage sons.
Fontaine is working from a script by Christopher Hampton, who knows a thing or two about controversial love, having scored an Oscar for writing Dangerous Liaisons.
Watts and Wright’s co-stars in the film are Xavier Samuel (Anonymous) and James Frecheville, who appeared in Animal Kingdom.
Watts will next crop up in Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar (which arrives over here on January 20) and has a small role in comedy shorts compilation Movie 43. Wright will be seen in David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (which will finally be out on December 26 and has just shoved out an extended trailer), and Rampart, due on February 10. Though The Hollywood Reporter is breaking word that The Grandmothers now has financing in place, a hat tip to Screen Daily for nabbing the story originally.