Anthony Hopkins And Judi Dench Will Wear Kenneth Branagh’s ITALIAN SHOES

I think during this thanksgiving break when you’ve got nothing but time, you should challenge yourself this task.. find out every novel that’s currently being adapted in Hollywood, from the info you’ve collected this past year, and read those books in one weekend. How bout it?..

Variety reported that Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench are in negotiations to star in the adaptation of ITALIAN SHOES, based on the book by Swedish author Henning Mankell, scripted by Richard Cottan, to be directed by the man Dench has collaborated with plenty times before, Kenneth Branagh who brought you Marvel’s movie THOR co-starring Hopkins as Odin.
Filmmakers are bitten by Swedish novel bug.
Production will start at the end of 2012 or possibly early 2013 depending on availability because how high in demand Hopkins and Dench are, those are some heavyweight talents right there!
The story is basically about a retired surgeon who is forced to confront his past mistakes when he’s reunited with his old love interest.
Here is the book‘s official synopsis..

Many years ago a devastating mistake drove Fredrik Welkin into a life as far as possible from his former position as a surgeon, where he mistakenly amputated the wrong arm of one of his patients. Now he lives in a frozen landscape. Each morning he dips his body into the freezing lake surrounding his home to remind himself he’s alive. However, Welkins’s icy existence begins to thaw when he receives a visit from a guest who helps him embark on a journey to acceptance and understanding. Full of the graceful prose and deft characterization that have been the hallmarks of Mankell’s prose, Italian Shoes shows a modern master at the height of his powers, effortlessly delivering a remarkable novel about the most rewarding theme of all: hope.