04/04/2016 - Notting Hill director’s latest shooting in the UK and Italy

Roger Michell commences principal photography today, April 4, at UK locations on My Cousin Rachel [+see also:
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interview: Paolo Sorrentino
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Q&A: Yorgos Lanthimos
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Michell said, “So many really great films have grown out of the works of Daphne Du Maurier - Don’t Look Now, The Birds, Rebecca - and here’s another of her classics which is at once detailed, dark, sexy, cinematic and full of surprises. I look forward to bringing this thrilling story to the screen with such a brilliant cast.” 

Kevin Loader (The Lady in the Van [+see also:
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My Cousin Rachel was first adapted for the screen in 1952 by Henry Koster and starred Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland. A BBC four-part series based on the novel was broadcast in 1983 and there have been radio and stage adaptations as well.