Tom Ford made the remarkable transition from fashion designer to filmmaker with 2009’s excellent drama A Single Man, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, and now it looks like he’s ready to get back behind the camera. THR reports that Ford is attached to produce a thriller called Nocturnal Animals, with George Clooney and Grant Heslov producing through their Smokehouse Pictures banner.
The film is an adaptation of the Austin Wright book Tony and Susan, which revolves around a woman named Susan who receives a manuscript from her ex-husband, whom she left 20 years earlier. He wants her opinion on the book, and so the narrative of Tony and Susan then tracks the manuscript (titled Nocturnal Animals) that focuses on a family vacation that turns deadly, and also the story of Susan, who begins reminiscing about her first marriage while perusing the novel.
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