Kidman Teams Up with Ralph Fiennes
Hollywood stars Nicole Kidman and Ralph Fiennes will act together in a movie titled ‘The Reader’.
Based on a best-seller book by German author Bernhard Schlink, ‘The Reader’ is set in contemporary Germany, where “a man recounts the story of his erotic awakening in a covert love affair with an older woman in the wake of World War II”.
Quite understandably, Kidman will play the older woman and Fiennes will play the man reminiscing his youth. Interestingly, Kidman is five years younger than Fiennes in real life.
According to reports on Variety, Anthony Minghella will produce the film along with Sydney Pollack and Scott Rudin.
Stephen Daldry will be the director while David Hare will write the script.
It is pretty much the same team that made ‘The Hours’ in 2002. Nicole Kidman won an Oscar in 2003 for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in the film.
The shooting of ‘The Reader’ will begin in Berlin in September this year.