After losing one pair of leads with the departure of Charlie Hunnam and Rosamund Pike, it looks like The Mountain Between Us might finally have found its on-screen pair. Kate Winslet is now in talks to join Idris Elba in the romantic drama.
Chris Weitz's script adapts Charles Martin’s eponymous novel, which finds two strangers surviving a plane crash in the Colorado woods and braving the elements together. The experience draws them closer, even as one worries about her engagement. Elba will be Ben Trace, a doctor and climbing fanatic who helps injured writer Ashley (Winslet, assuming she signs on) as they make their way down a mountain in unforgiving weather.
Paradise Now’s Hany Abu-Assad is aboard to direct for Fox 2000, and if all goes to plan, the cameras should be cranking in snowy
British Columbia, Canada in December.
Winslet was most recently seen in crime thriller Triple 9 and has a role alongside Will Smith in Collateral Beauty, which arrives in the UK on December 30.