Clive Owen.
Clive Owen is set to star in director Fred Schepisi's new film Andorra which is based on Peter Cameron's novel of the same name.
Producers are Jamie Bialkower for Jump Street Films and Lizzette Atkins for Unicorn Films.
Andorra is the second film for Owen and Schepisi after Words and Pictures.
Schepisi said he was thrilled to have another chance to collaborate with Owen.
“Particularly on a project this intriguing," he said. "He is perfect for the role.”
Academy Award nominee and BAFTA winner James Ivory (The Remains of the Day, Howards End) is the Executive Producer.
The screenplay has been adapted by Cameron and Bialkower. Production is scheduled for next spring in Europe with post production to follow in Australia.
Andorra is a romantic thriller set against a dreamscape where nothing is as it appears.
Owen will star as Alexander Fox, a bookseller who leaves the US after a personal tragedy to begin a new life abroad.
The tiny country in which he finds himself – Andorra – is an idyllic escape, offering Alexander the chance to reinvent himself.
Settling into its grand (and only) hotel, he quickly becomes entangled with the ever-present locals.
But the mystery of his origin deepens.
An Australian couple take an unsettling interest in the attractive newcomer, and Andorra’s matriarch seems to recall him from long ago.
When a woman’s body is found almost immediately upon his arrival, the local lieutenant becomes strangely convinced that Alexander is responsible.
He soon finds himself in a crisis of conscience and identity, and in a foreign country that he may not be able to escape from.
Cameron’s novel has received postive reviews from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsday and The Washington Post.