Production is scheduled this January on "Disgrace," an adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel, to be directed by Steve Jacobs from a script by Anna-Maria Monticelli reports Production Weekly.
Set in post-apartheid Cape Town, the film takes as its complex central character 52-year-old University English professor (John Malkovich) whose preoccupation with Romantic poetry-and romancing his students-threatens to turn him into a "a moral dinosaur".
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated farm.
For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonize his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faults in their relationship
