REVISED MAR. 8 : Exile Day-Lewis Back In Movies; Irons Expected To Be In It
by Baz Bamigboye, Daily Mail
March 8, 2000
[Webmaster's note: New information for original article dated January 14: "Gone To Earth" will commence shooting in Ireland in May and will star Lynn Redgrave. Jeremy is currently "discussing joining the cast." This according to the March 7 Belfast Telegraph.]
THE Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis is returning from a self-imposed exile to work on a hot new film production - with his wife.
The actor's last film was The Boxer opposite Emily Watson three years ago.
But for his new movie, Day-Lewis will not step in front of the cameras.
He will work as executive producer while his wife Rebecca Miller directs a cast that is expected to include the Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons.
Miller, daughter of legendary playwright Arthur Miller, has adapted Mary Webb's novel Gone To Earth.
Webb is famous for her poems and the book Precious Bane, which was turned into a marvellous TV film with Janet McTeer 12 years ago.
Gone To Earth is about a young woman, regarded as something of a wild child, and her relationships.
Samantha Morton is one of those reading the script, but she has yet to make a decision, primarily because she will soon give birth to her first child.
But it's the long-awaited return of Day-Lewis that has excited those who have known about the hush-hush project.
These days he spends most of his time at his family house in Tuscany and at another home he keeps in France. But he will come to London to assist in aspects of the film's pre-production.
Day-Lewis has helped Rebecca to acquire funding for the new film from sources in Los Angeles and London.
The idea is to shoot it in Britain in the spring. Day-Lewis has no plans to appear in the film, not even in a cameo role.