UK director Lynne Ramsay has given updates on a raft of projects she has on the boil, including a fresh collaboration with Joaquin Phoenix, on the fringes of the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent incubator this weekend.
She revealed that her adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s short story Stone Mattress remains in development, with Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh still attached.
The Amazon-backed project was first announced last May during the Cannes Film Festival and there were reports it would start shooting last September.
The tale revolves around a woman in her sixties who plots a revenge killing against the backdrop of a luxury arctic cruise when she meets a man from a traumatic incident in her past. “It’s hard to put together because it’s set in the Arctic and I’ve made it quite a high-end ship.
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