Chris O’Dowd had a busy 2014 on the big screen what with living on a small Irish island (Calvary), playing a schmuck in corporate England (Cuban Fury) and teaching in a New York school (St. Vincent). Part of this year now looks to be taken up working with Julianne Moore in** Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Director Nicole Holofcener has adapted the script from Lee Israel’s 2008 memoir. The story finds Israel (Moore) as a respected biographer who runs into financial difficulties. So she starts fabricating the letters of famous dead writers and celebrities in order to drum up the money to keep a roof over her head. But when her work begins to raise suspicion, she goes one step further and starts stealing actual letters from library archives, selling them through a fence she meets at a bar (O’Dowd, we assume is playing the ex-con criminal, not the bar). All the while, however, the FBI is closing in on the scheme.
There’s no word yet on when Holofcener will start shooting the film. O’Dowd has a key role in Stephen Frears’ Lance Armstrong film The Program and will also be seen in Tim Burton’s latest, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiars, an adaptation of fantasy novel Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, which is scheduled to arrive in the UK on March 4 next year.