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1 of 4 | Glenn Close will prima successful nan caller movie "Encore." File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
May 2 (UPI) -- Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons will reunite successful a caller drama film.
The Hollywood Reporter said Thursday that Close, 77, and Irons, 75, will prima successful nan movie Encore.
Close and Irons antecedently collaborated connected nan Broadway play The Real Thing, nan Oscar-winning 1990 thriller Reversal of Fortune, and nan 1993 play play The House of Spirits.
The brace will prima pinch Henry Winkler and Don Johnson successful Encore.
Variety confirmed nan casting.
Encore is written by Robert Nelson Jacobs (Chocolat) and directed by Simon Curtis (My Week pinch Marilyn, Downton Abbey: A New Era). The movie will beryllium presented to world buyers astatine nan Cannes movie marketplace successful June.
Close and Irons play Marie and Nigel, erstwhile Broadway icons who go caller residents astatine a status home. Marie plans a show pinch nan residents successful nan hopes of reviving Nigel's passion for theatre and embracing this caller section successful their lives.
"I loved Robert's rubbing and hilarious book from nan infinitesimal I publication it and it has been thrilling to spot immoderate of nan top actors successful nan world respond successful nan aforesaid way," Curtis said. "I look guardant to continuing to build a dream formed truthful audiences tin ideate a group of their favourite actors surviving retired their aureate years nether nan aforesaid roof."
Encore is produced by Temple Hill Entertainment. Protagonist Pictures will grip world rights, pinch UTA Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance to oversee U.S. sales.
