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Colin Firth To Play Kidman’s Evil Husband In ‘Before I Go to Sleep’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 06, 2013 @ 11:59am
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Devil’s Knott‘s Colin Firth, pictured, is confirmed to star with Nicole Kidman in Rowan Joffe’s thriller Before I Go to Sleep for Scott Free and Millennium Films, Variety reports.

Firth will play Kidman’s husband in the film, which also stars Mark Strong and Anne-Marie Duff.

“Story follows a north London woman (Kidman) who wakes up every morning remembering nothing. Her husband tells her she suffered a trauma, and that she dare not leave home. She sneaks off to a doctor (Strong) who gives her a small digital recorder and urges her to play back her thoughts day after day in hopes of re-integrating her mind. She does and it works, and that’s when she comes to realize that the man sleeping next to her isn’t her husband.”

Based on the debut novel by British scribe S.J. Watson, “Before I Go to Sleep” was scripted and will be helmed by Joffe. It is set to lense at London’s Twickenham Studios, and at various locations in and around London, at the end of February.

[AFM '12] Nicole Kidman Thriller ‘Before I Go to Sleep’ Casts Up

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Posted by MrDisgusting on October 31, 2012 @ 12:33pm
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Zero Dark Thirty thesp Mark Strong is set to star opposite Nicole Kidman in Rowan Joffe’s psychological thriller Before I Go to Sleep, which is being shopped to foreign buyers at AFM, says Variety.

Joffe is adapting S.J. Watson’s bestselling book of the same name for Millennium Films/Nu Image.

“Story follows a north London woman (Kidman) who wakes up every morning remembering nothing. Her husband tells her she suffered a trauma, and that she dare not leave home. She sneaks off to a doctor (Strong) who gives her a small digital recorder and urges her to play back her thoughts day after day in hopes of re-integrating her mind. She does and it works, and that’s when she comes to realize that the man sleeping next to her isn’t her husband.”

Scott Free’s Ridley Scott and Liza Marshall are producing with Mark Gill and Matthew O’Toole, while exec producers include Peter Heslop, Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson and John Thompson. Pic is skedded to lense early next year in London. READ MORE

Nicole Kidman Wants Her Memory Back In ‘Before I Go To Sleep’

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 02, 2012 @ 5:47am
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The new thriller, Before I Go To Sleep, hasn’t started shooting yet but it does have a sales poster as it heads into Cannes. Nicole Kidman (To Die For, Eyes Wide Shut) had previously been rumored to be starring in the film as it was being set up – but I’d say either a deal is done or she has a pretty firm attachment agreement or else they wouldn’t be trying to sell it based on her name. The film will be written and directed by Rowan Joffe (who directed Brighton Rock and wrote 28 Days Later along with The American). It’s based on a source novel by S.J. Watson.

The film is, “based on the worldwide bestselling novel about a north London woman who wakes up every morning remembering nothing. Her husband tells her she suffered a trauma and that she dare not leave home. She sneaks off to a doctor who gives her a small digital recorder and urges her to play back her thoughts day after day in hopes of re-integrating her mind. She does. It works. And that’s when she comes to realize that the man sleeping next to her… is not her husband.”

Sounds like it could be pretty cool if handled right (then again, that could pretty much be said about anything). Head inside for the sales poster. READ MORE

Nicole Kidman To Topline Psychological Thriller ‘Before I Go To Sleep’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 29, 2012 @ 5:44pm
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Nicole Kidman is in talks to play the lead in writer-director Rowan Joffe’s (writer of 28 Weeks Later) psychological thriller Before I Go To Sleep, which Joffe has adapted from Steve Watson’s acclaimed debut novel, reports Screen Daily.

Watson’s acclaimed novel is a psychological thriller “about a woman who wakes up every morning without remembering the past 20 years of her life.” The novel’s rights have sold in 42 countries.

Liza Marshall of Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free is producing. StudioCanal and BBC Films are among parties circling the project. Shoot dates have yet to be confirmed.

BAFTA winner Joffe wrote and directed 2010 drama Brighton Rock and also wrote screenplay’s for Anton Corbijn’s The American and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s 28 Weeks Later.

Kidman most recently starred in Joel Schumacher’s terrible Trespass and will hit screens this year in Park Chan-wook’s Stoker. READ MORE