EXCLUSIVE: Jack O’Connell and Matthew Duckett have joined Golden Globe Winner Emma Corrin in Woman Chatterley’s Lover for Sony’s 3000 Photos and Netflix. This would be the first movie to be produced underneath the brand new partnership the place Sony Photos will supply Netflix a primary have a look at any movies it intends to make for streaming. The deal was introduced in April and a part of that deal allowed Sony to supply Netflix a primary have a look at any movies it intends to make straight for streaming or decides later to license for streaming, and Netflix has dedicated to make plenty of these movies over the course of the deal. Sources say that whereas Sony is not going to distribute the movie, Netflix can nonetheless select to have it run theatrically in the event that they please for an awards qualifying run given Elizabeth Gabler, who runs 3000 Photos, monitor report with award season pics.

Woman Chatterley’s Lover shall be directed by The Mustang helmer Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. Lifetime of Pi scribe David Magee wrote the script. Academy Award nominee Laurence Mark and Academy Award nominees Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent of Blueprint Photos are producing.

Based mostly on the basic D.H. Lawrence novel, a narrative nicely forward of its time, we observe the lifetime of Woman Chatterley, a lady born to a lifetime of wealth and privilege, who quickly finds herself married to a person that she finally falls out of affection with. Woman Chatterley engages in a torrid affair with a gamekeeper on their English property, discovering extra need and intimacy than she thought attainable. When she realizes that she has fallen coronary heart and soul, she breaks all traditions of the day and seeks happiness with the person she loves.

Marisa Paiva and Nikki Cooper are the executives overseeing the venture for 3000 Photos.

Finest identified for his roles in ‘71 and Unbroken, O’Connell lately wrapped filming the BBC’s SAS: Rogue Heroes, a six-part drama based mostly on Ben Macintyre’s ebook of the identical title which charts the formation of the famend Particular Forces unit. He was most lately seen in Andrew Haigh’s five-part AMC/BBC thriller The North Water, portraying a disgraced ex-army surgeon who indicators up as ship’s physician on an ill-fated whaling expedition to the Arctic within the late 1850s. Amongst different much-admired tv roles, O’Connell has additionally made a reputation for himself on the silver display screen by starring in acclaimed movies similar to: Cash Monster Little Fish and Starred Up.

Duckett lately appeared as Loyal in The Royal Nationwide Theatre’s manufacturing of Tartuffe and within the main position of Chris in My Left/Proper Foot – The Musical at The Nationwide Theatre of Scotland.  His TV credit contains Confession for ITV and Docs for the BBC.

O’Connell is repped by UTA and Conway van Gelder Grant and Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dern.