Plot Summary: A live-action feature adaptation of Posy Simmonds' acclaimed graphic novel "
Tamara Drewe."
Gemma Arterton will play Drewe, a sexy flirt who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals.
Simmonds' novel, itself a collection of comic strips she first published in U.K. newspaper the Guardian, is a modern reimagining of Thomas Hardy's classic novel "Far From the Madding Crowd."
Release Date: TBA
Director: Stephen Frears
Screenwriter: Moira Buffini
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam, Luke Evans, Bill Camp, Tamsin Greig
