Hungarian filmmaker Lajos Koltai ("Fateless") is in final negotiations to direct the screen adaptation of Susan Minot's best-selling novel "Evening" for Focus Features reports Reuters.

Minot and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham ("The Hours") adapted the story of a woman, reflecting back on one weekend in her youth when she met the love of her life, as her two daughters try to come to terms with the mother's impending death while struggling with their own personal issues.

"Evening" is the first English-language film to be directed by Koltai, who scored an Oscar-nomination in 2001 for his cinematography on "Malena".