Overview
- Producers confirm Richard Eyre directing from Rose Tremain’s screenplay based on her short story and forthcoming novel.
- Filming is scheduled to begin on 9 February, with Artemis Films, Embankment Films and Night Train Media producing.
- Night Train Media is the producer and principal financier, Embankment is handling sales and additional funding comes from Head Gear Films, M2 Mediapost, FireFrame Studios and Screen Cornwall.
- The story is set at Manderville Hall in Cornwall, where housekeeper Danni and writer Daphne du Maurier begin a secret relationship observed by Adelaide.
- PerthNow reports that Uma Thurman and Phoebe Dynevor are no longer attached, while Anthony Hopkins plays widowed Lord Grenville-Whithers.