Filming has officially wrapped in Ireland on a new screen adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer prize-winning play “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”.
Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ben Foster and Colin Morgan lead the cast of the project with Lange reprising her 2016 Tony-winning Broadway role of Mary Tyrone.
In the story, Mary is a troubled, emotionally fragile and addiction-plagued wife to James, a celebrated actor but failed property magnate with fears and regrets rooted in his impoverished beginnings. Foster will play their charming and hard-drinking elder son, Jamie, while Morgan is the bleakly optimistic younger son, Edmund.
Set on a single day in August 1912 at the family’s Connecticut seaside home, they face the looming dual spectres of Edmund’s potentially fatal consumption diagnosis and Mary’s increasingly fragile and anxious state of mind.
Celebrated British theater and opera director Jonathan Kent makes his feature directorial debut on the project, which David Lindsay-Abaire (“Poltergeist”) adapted for the screen. Gabrielle Tana, Bill Kenwright and Gleb Fetisov produce.
Source: Deadline
