"Piccadilly Pictures, the UK financier that backed We Need to Talk About Kevin and Coriolanus, has unveiled a new development fund to sit alongside its $25m finance fund – and have already backed projects from BBC Films and Charles Dance.
Piccadilly’s Christopher Figg and Robert Whitehouse currently have a handful of projects benefitting from their SEIS-qualifying development fund and are looking to add more.
The first projects include a feature version of Alice Thomas Ellis’s novel The Inn at the Edge of the World, which is being co-executive produced by Charles Dance and is aiming for a late 2014 shoot..."
-the director : Peter Hewitt
-producers : Charles Dance, Robert Habermann, Christopher Figg, Lamia Nayeb
-cast : Kim Catrall, Michael Gambon, Brian Cox, Penelope Wilton...no more Stephen Fry
***Charles was supposed to direct it in 2009....it's about a group of people who go to a remote Scottish island to escape Christmas... based on the Alice Thomas-Ellis' novel
in 2009 : the former partner : Intandem CEO, Gary Smith said "Charles's vision will give the film an exciting edge that will appeal to an international audience as well as satisfying the fan base from the novel."
Dance who wrote the screenplay said 'I wanted to build upon the success of the best-selling novel by making the necessary adaptations to the characters and the plot that will make The Inn as successful on the big screen.'
