Arthur Miller may be considered on the America's great 20th Century playwrights, but his works have proved difficult to adapt for the screen - even Death Of A Salesman is yet to have a truly great big-screen version - but Anthony Lapaglia is hoping he'll have more luck with A View From The Bridge.
The Without A Trace actor won a Tony in 1998 for playing Eddie Carbone in the play on Broadway, and for long time he's been working on producing and reprising his role in a movie version. Now the project is moving forward with Variety reporting that Vera Farmiga and Mia Wasikowska have signed up to star, joining the previously cast Sam Neill and Sebastian Stan. Robert Connolly will direct from Andrew Bovell's adaptation of Miller's play.
The story centres on Carbone, a dockworker who is unhappily married to Beatrice (Vera Farmiga) while raising their niece Catherine (Mia Wasikowska). When Beatrice's cousins visit from Italy and become enamored with Catherine, Eddie becomes consumed with jealousy and rage, which ends in tragedy.
LaPaglia has been working on this a long time, and almost got it made in 2005, with Barry Levinson directing and Scarlett Johansson and Frances McDormand starring alongside him, but that attempt collapsed. The new version will shoot in June.