Harry Potter actors Bonnie Wright and Ciarán Hinds (Aberforth Dumbledore) will reunite on the big screen again for an adaptation of author John Banville's story,
The Sea, in Ireland this fall.
While Bonnie has been vague about what feature she is shooting now, she had drop hints the last couple of weeks to be filming in
Ireland (where she currently is now), and that she will be
costarring with actor Rufus Sewell in a new production. Local Irish paper
Wexford Echo confirmed late last week that Sewell would lead a cast including Sinéad Cusack, Charlotte Rampling, and Natascha McElhone for
The Sea's production, with a 1950s backdrop, this fall.
"The past beats inside me like a second heart," observes Max Morden early on, and his return to the seaside resort where he lost his innocence gradually yields the objects of his nostalgia.
Max's thoughts glide swiftly between the events of his wife's final illness and the formative summer, 50 years past, when the Grace family—father, mother and twins Chloe and Myles—lived in a villa in the seaside town where Max and his quarreling parents rented a dismal "chalet."
Banville seamlessly juxtaposes Max's youth and age, and each scene is rendered with the intense visual acuity of a photograph ("the mud shone blue as a new bruise").
As in all Banville novels, things are not what they seem. Max's cruelly capricious complicity in the sad history that unfolds, and the facts kept hidden from the reader until the shocking denouement, brilliantly dramatize the unpredictability of life and the incomprehensibility of death. Like the strange high tide that figures into Max's visions and remembrances, this novel sweeps the reader into the inexorable waxing and waning of life.
No word yet on who Bonnie will portray, but Hinds will have the part of Max Morden; the film is slated for a 2013 release.
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Bonnie Wright & Ciarán Hinds set to costar in 1950s drama "The Sea" 
