Keira Knightley may have worked with Stellan Skarsgård in King Arthur and Pirates Of The Caribbean, but the actress has never acted alongside the Swede’s eldest son, Alexander. That is soon set to change, with the pair in talks to star in period drama, The Aftermath.
Rhidian Brook’s bestselling novel was the centre of a fierce bidding war, according to Deadline, but it’s Fox Searchlight who have come out on top with the next film from Testament Of Youth director, James Kent.
Set in post-World War II Germany, the book follows the plight of Rachael Morgan and her British colonel husband – the man tasked with rebuilding Hamburg. But the pair find themselves in the rather unconventional position of having to share their new home with its previous owners. And let’s just say that they don’t spend their evenings holding hands and singing Kumbaya, with Deadline going on to explain how “in this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal”.
Ridley Scott’s Scott Free will produce Aftermath, with Race’s Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse on scripting duties.
Knightley can next be seen opposite Will Smith in Collateral Beauty and as the titular Colette for Wash Westmoreland, with Skarsgård next in Duncan Jones’s Mute, currently in pre-production.