Costume dramatist extraordinaire Stephen Frears is coming over all modern, adapting graphic novel Tamara Drewe with the Gemma Arterton as the gorgeous comic strip character. But it's OK, because the premise is an update of Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd.
Co-starring in the return-to-the-country tale will be Mamma Mia! boy Dominic Cooper, T****he Queen's Roger Allam, Arterton's Clash Of The Titans' cohort Luke Evans, Public Enemies' Bill Camp and TV comedienne Tamsin Greig.
The comic strip Tamara Drewe is written by Posy Simmonds, about a girl who shakes up her rural home when she returns a beautiful swan having been a bit of an ugly duckling growing up, causing controversy the the country idyll.
The film starts shooting on September 21 at Pinewood Studios and on location around the fields of the UK.