Academy Award winning actress Cate Blanchett is set to step behind the camera for the first time to direct an adaptation of the Herman Koch novel THE DINNER. Deadline broke the news this evening along with the fact that THE MESSENGER writer Oren Moverman will pen the screenplay.
The film looks like a basic piece with all of the action taking place during a single dinner sitting.
Here’s the official synopsis of the source material.
It’s a summer’s evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse — the banality of work, the triviality of the holidays. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened.
Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.
Deadline adds that it is not yet known if Blanchett will also star.
Source: Deadline
