EXCLUSIVE: Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is set for another small-screen remake with The Girl writer Gwyneth Hughes developing an adaptation with British producer Expectation. Deadline understands th…
Deadline understands that the BBC Studios-backed producer, which is run by former Endemol Shine chief Tim Hincks and ex-ITV content boss Peter Fincham, is in the early stages of developing the project., which starred Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren and explored Alfred Hitchcock’s obsession with the actress.
The story has been adapted numerous times with its most notable recent remake being the Joe Wright-directed, Keira Knightley-fronted Working Title production in 2012. Knightley starred as Karenina alongside Jude Law as her husband, Count Alexeir Alexandrovich Karenin in the Tom Stoppard-scripted feature. Elsewhere, Channel 4 and PBS remade it in 2000 with David Blair directing stars including Helen McCrory, Stephen Dillane and Mark Strong in the four-part, Company Pictures-produced series.
It is the latest scripted project for Expectation, which is currently produced David Schwimmer comedy, starring Catastrophe’s Mark Bonnar, for the BBC. The company’s drama division is run by creative director Kirstie Macdonald, who joined Expectation from World Productions, where she worked on series including BBC’s
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