Winslet to star in Branagh romance

WinsletLONDON -- Kate Winslet is installed on star in "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Cake Society," which Kenneth Branagh is positioned to direct for Fox 2000. This reunites Winslet with Branagh the first time since she carried out Ophelia within the bigscreen "Hamlet" in 1996. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Cake Society" is modified by Don Roos within the bestseller by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. It's a love story occur the London as well as the Funnel Islands after World war ii. Winslet may have a novel author who gets into in to a correspondence getting a man from Guernsey, and finds out how a islanders used the sunday paper group through the war as cover to outsmart their German occupiers. Intrigued by their tales in the occupation, and the way the books found influence their lives, she decides to visit Guernsey herself, a trip that changes her forever. In the recent interview with Variety, Branagh known towards the project as "a stylish romance, very touching and advantageous." The project continues to be produced by Paula Masur and Mitchell Kaplan, with Branagh's regular partner David Barron. Shooting is scheduled for March, in line with the Daily Mail. It had been initially launched inside the U.S. in 2008. It absolutely was the only novel by Mary Ann Shaffer, an editor and librarian, whose niece Annie Burrows aided her finish it when Shaffer increased being crictally ill. Shaffer died aged 74 a few several days just before the novel was launched. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com