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EXCLUSIVE: Here is nan charismatic announcement that Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones’s Baby head Sharon Maguire has recovered her formed for unconventional emotion triangle drama The Joy Of Sex, astir really nan celebrated 1970s love-making manual came about.
Maguire has been pulling this together for a while and her formed was worthy nan wait. Oscar-winners Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) and Julianne Moore (May December) are starring alongside Oscar nominee Laura Linney(Ozark) successful nan movie, which started filming successful nan UK this week.
Published successful 1972, nan activity manual The Joy of Sex was a scandalous sensation, trading much than 15 cardinal copies worldwide, spending 70 weeks astatine nan apical of the New York Times bestseller list. Sex successful nan suburbs was ne'er nan aforesaid again.
Maguire’s movie charts “the hilarious, heartbreaking and unthinkable existent communicative of really this astir different of look books was born”, spotlighting nan eccentric and absorbing characters down nan book.
Firth, Moore and Linney are joined by David Tennant (Dr Who), Jason Watkins (The Crown) and Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread). Script is written by Sharon Maguire and Lise Mayer.
Producers are Alison Owen and Debra Hayward of Monumental Films, Anand Tucker of Seven Stories Film & TV and Matthias Greving of Kinescope Pictures. Executive producers are Deepak Nayar of Kintop Pictures, Colleen Woodcock of Seven Stories, Philip Von Alvensleben and Isabell Von Alvensleben of Alive Entertainment, Marie-Claire Benson and Emma Berkofsky of Lionsgate UK, and Embankment Films.
This 1 was coming together going into nan Cannes marketplace but Deadline waited a hit for last pieces to autumn into place. The movie was a deed pinch buyers and pre-sold to UK, 23 territories passim continental Europe and Africa, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. Lionsgate is distributing successful nan UK. Wildbunch will administer successful German speaking territories.
Embankment Films is handling world income and co-represents home authorities pinch CAA Media Finance and WME Independent. Senior lending is provided by DZ Bank and spread backing by Alive Entertainment.
The charismatic synopsis reads: “Alex Comfort (Firth), a British science professor who specialized in nan lifelong study of molluscs, thought he was writing ‘an antidote to war’. The movie tells nan communicative of nan passionate and complicated romantic trio of Comfort, his woman Ruth (Linney) and her champion friend Jane (Moore). This unconventional throuple in nan quiet suburbs of North London challenged societal norms, lasting 10 years. It was nan laboratory wherever recipes outlined successful nan book, arsenic good arsenic nan instantly recognizable hand-drawn sketches of hirsute hippies having sex, were born. The book was erotic, funny, and wholesome, reinventing activity and emotion for mean group and giving them support to bask activity for nan first clip ever.”
“The Joy of Sex was ne'er allowed wrong my Irish Catholic family successful nan 70s,” Maguire said today. “And arsenic a result, its hidden committedness had maine successful its thrall. The irony is that nan book was an unashamed activity guideline for loving couples, yet it was created retired of a somewhat tempestuous triangle. Dissecting this triangle lies astatine the heart of nan movie. It’s a communicative which is surprising, moving and very funny.”
The Sun had a fewer of nan formed earlier this week.
Firth is represented by Independent Talent (UK) and CAA (US). Moore is represented by WME and Entertainment 360. Linney is represented by CAA, and Lighthouse Management & Media.
