I’ve long admired her thoughtfulness, immense versatility, and deeply captivating presence both on the stage and on screen. It’s long been a dream of mine to work with Glenn Close. “I’m deeply honored to be adapting one of my favorite novels, Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book, and to film in Finland, the beautiful country in which this story is based. The film will be directed by Charlie McDowell ( Windfall, The one I love ) and starred by eight-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close and Anders Danielsen Lie, a Norwegian actor who was also Academy Award-nominated for the film The Worst Person in the World.ĭirector Charlie McDowell, a Tove Jansson and Moomin fan himself, says the novel is very dear to him: Next summer, an island in the beautiful Finnish archipelago will be buzzing with life when the shooting of the film based on author and artist Tove Jansson’s beloved novel The Summer Book, a classic and bestseller within Nordic fiction, begins.
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