Terence Davies adapting 'Sorrows'

Davies 'Mother of Sorrows'British auteur Terence Davies is creating a feature according to "Mother of Sorrows," the prize-winning 2005 debut novel by American Richard McCann.Davies is focusing on the project with Leopardrama, the fiction arm based in london and NY-based production group Argonon. They've development funding in the EU's Media program."Mother of Sorrows" includes 10 intertwined tales about two teenage siblings coping with the dying of the father and also the influence of the strong, complex mother. The novel won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award and was nominated for that Stonewall Book Award for gay fiction."It is really an important story since it touches the humanity in most people,Inch Davies stated. "I really like the delicacy from the book and it is gentle journey from publish-World war 2 optimism for that American Paradise to some much deeper knowledge of both maternal and filial love as well as an acceptance of mortality by giving up towards the light."Davies most lately directed nineteen fifties-set melodrama "The Dark Blue Ocean," starring Rachel Weisz, and it is next set to shoot his lengthy-looked forward to adaptation of classic Scottish novel "Sunset Song," compiled by Lewis Grassic Gibbon in 1932.His last film shot within the U.S. was "The Neon Bible" in 1995, though younger crowd modified Edith Wharton's novel "Home of Mirth" in 2000, using Glasgow for NY.Leopardrama, headed by Joey Attawia, Jez Swimer and David Chikwe, co-created low-budget Brit thriller "The Holding" this past year making "An Englishman in NY," starring John Hurt, in '09.Mother or father company Argonon has additionally introduced that it is three dimensional film of Matthew Bourne's manufacture of the ballet "Swan Lake," that is due in U.K. movie theaters this season, continues to be acquired by specialist arts distrib More2Screen for release in additional than 600 theaters worldwide. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com