Kenneth Branagh To Direct Adaptation Of Swedish Novel ‘Italian Shoes’
By Russ Fischer/Oct. 19, 2011 4:30 pm EST
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Producing will be the Swedish company Yellow Bird. You might not know that name, but you’ll probably recognize the company’s logo, as it is tacked on the front of the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, as well as on the other two Millennium Trilogy novel adaptations that follow it and the film Headhunters, which played Fantastic Fest and is already set up to be remade.
Not exactly a thriller, unless one considers that what is in peril here is the character’s well-being or his conscience.
This isn’t the first news of Branagh’s association with Mankell. He has already starred in Wallander, the UK television adaptation of Inspector Wallander stories, also produced by Yellow Bird. And in January of this year, the possibility of Branagh directing Italian Shoes was reported in Sweden. At that point Anthony Hopkins was mentioned as a possible star. Variety’s report today does not highlight any actor as a likely lead.
Richard Cottan, who also wrote for the Wallander series, wrote the script for the film version of Italian Shoes.
