“This is a film! You’ve just got to read it.” I read it and I thought, he’s absolutely right.” “He came into the office, bouncing with enthusiasm, as Trevor can,” remembers David. “I sent the idea to David and he responded enthusiastically immediately and then he read the book and become even more enthusiastic.” Intrigued, Trevor contacted producer David Parfitt, whose many successful films include the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love. Almost by return I got an email back from the writer Jennie Rooney saying: ‘No the film rights have not gone and I cannot think of anything more exciting’.” Trevor Nunn I used it to say: ‘I’m absolutely sure that the film rights have gone a long time ago but definitely this should be a movie’. “These days, when you get to the end of a book, there’s not only a biographical note about the author but there’s an email address for your feedback.
Confronted with an impossible question – what price would you pay for peace? – Joan must choose between betraying her country and loved ones or saving them.įor award-winning theatre director Trevor Nunn, the novel’s potential as a movie was evident from the first moment he glanced at its jacket while browsing in a bookstore.
Working at a top-secret nuclear research facility during WWII, Joan comes to the realisation that the world is on the brink of mutually assured destruction. In 1938 where Joan was a Cambridge physics student who falls for young communist Leo Galich and through him, begins to see the world in a new light. Red Joan offered acclaimed director Trevor Nunn the opportunity to bring to screen a fascinating tale of espionage laced with romance, danger, drama and moral dilemmas.ĭirected by Nunn (original London production of Les Misérables, Twelfth Night or What You Will), from an adapted screenplay by Lindsay Shapero (Royal Wives at War, Enid) and based on Jennie Rooney’s best-selling novel of the same name, it stars Judi Dench (Skyfall, Shakespeare in Love) as an elderly lady living a quiet life in suburbia at the turn of the millennium whose tranquil life is suddenly disrupted when she’s arrested by MI5 and accused of providing intelligence to Communist Russia.
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