Last November we reported that DreamWorks had acquired the film rights to M. L. Stedman's novel of psychological suspense The Light Between Oceans. Now we're learning that the studio has hired Derek Cianfrance (The Place Beyond the Pines) to direct the film.
"We certainly believe [Cianfrance] can make a modern epic from [this] poignant novel and will be able to capture the great epic sweep and emotional honestly of this story," said Stacey Snider, Co-Chairman/CEO of DreamWorks.
No screenwriter has (to our knowledge) yet been named for the project.
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The Light Between Oceans
M. L. Stedman
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.
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