Oscar winner Helen Mirren is set to star as famed “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “Strangers on a Train” author Patricia Highsmith in Anton Corbijn’s new feature “Switzerland”.
The character-driven piece begins when Highsmith’s late life solitude in the Swiss Alps is interrupted by Edward, a young literary agent who has been sent by her relentless publishing company to convince her to write one last Tom Ripley novel.
Highsmith uses her macabre imagination to scare Edward away, but before they know it a collaboration ensues – leaving the world they’ve constructed indistinguishable from their own.
Highsmith’s many works also included “The Two Faces of January” and “The Price Of Salt,” the latter becoming the celebrated film “Carol”. Her books have been adapted dozens of times for screen and she was known for an uncompromising personal life including alcoholism, lesbian affairs and misanthropy.
Corbijn (“The American,” “A Most Wanted Man”) is onboard to direct from a script by Australian playwright and novelist Joanna Murray-Smith.
Gaby Tana, Troy Lum, Andrew Mason, Jim Robison and Kurt Martin produce the project and shooting takes place this year in Europe with additional casting now underway.
Mirren currently stars in the “Yellowstone” spin-off series “1923” and will next be seen in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” Louis Letterier’s “Fast X” and the festival entry “Golda” in which she plays former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
Source: Variety
