Alison Owen Movie Updates

Emma Donoghue is teaming up with Alison Owen’s and Debra Hayward’s Monumental Pictures to make a feature adaptation of her novel Frog Music.

Emma Watson has signed to star in Your Voice in My Head, the adaptation of the Emma Forrest memoir that Francesca Gregorini will direct.

Simon Curtis, who most recently directed My Week With Marilyn, is in talks to helm The Buccaneers, an adaptation of Edith Wharton’s high-society novel being produced by BBC Films and Ruby Films.

1984 Private Defense Contractors and Ruby Films have set South Korean helmer Park Chan-wook to direct crime drama Corsica 72 from a Black List script by Skyfall scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.

Eve’s Bayou helmer Kasi Lemmons has been set to adapt and direct On Beauty, based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Zadie Smith.

The Walt Disney Company is near a deal to acquire Saving Mr. Banks, the Kelly Marcel-scripted saga of how Walt Disney persuaded Australian author P.L. Travers to sell him the rights to make a film out of Mary Poppins.

The story of how classic album London Calling was created at a studio in Highbury by punk pioneers The Clash is to be brought to life in a new movie biopic.