After the success of Thor, Kenneth Branagh has the movie world at his feet. However rather than capitalising on that with another big, mainstream movie (or indeed Thor 2, which he stepped away from), Variety reports that he has signed on to direct an adaptation of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for Fox 2000.
The project is based on the novel by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Schaffer, which is the relationship by letter between a London-based writer and a man on the island of Guernsey after World War II (and of course the Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles taken over by the Nazis, who left the islands in a bit of a state). The man tells the author all about the titular club and how it was born out of a spur of the minute alibi to get past their Nazi overlords, and which was used to undermine the Nazis.
Don Roos (The Opposite Of Sex, Marley & Me) is writing the screenplay adaptation for The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. No production schedule was given for the drama at this time.