It would appear that Hanna director Joe Wright is raiding his rolodex for his next film – a Tom Stoppard-penned adaptation of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina – as he’s adding a few actors he’s worked with in the past, including Pride & Prejudice’s Matthew Macfadyen.
Macfadyen’s just one of a batch of new casting announcements for the film, which finds Keira Knightley as the bored wife of aristocrat Jude Law, who turns to the welcoming embrace of her virile young lover, played by Kick-Ass’ Aaron Johnson.
And Knightley now has a brother in Macfadyen’s Oblonsky, with Kelly Macdonald jumping aboard to play his wife Dolly. Hanna's Olivia Williams is Johnson’s mother, Brighton Rock’s Andrea Riseborough will be party girl Princess Betsy, and Wright regular Saoirse Ronan is Kitty, sister to Dolly.
The production, which shoots in London and Russia this September, is now kicking off a search for the various children in the film, including the five-strong brood belonging to Macfadyen and Macdonald's characters.