Bestselling Romantic Author Cecelia Ahern's “Where Rainbows End” Adapted to Film Entitled “Love, Rosie”
Do we really only get one shot at
true love? In “Love, Rosie” -Rosie and Alex have been best friends since they
were 5, so they couldn’t possibly be right for one another...or could they?
When it comes to love, life and making the right choices, these two are their
own worst enemies. One awkward turn at
18, one missed opportunity...and life sends them hurling in different
directions. But somehow, across time, space and different continents, the tie
that binds them cannot be undone – despite unwanted pregnancies, disastrous
love affairs, marriage, infidelity and divorce. Will they find their way back
to one another, or will it be too late?
Based on Cecelia Ahern’s bestselling
novel, “Where Rainbows End,” “Love, Rosie” is a sassy, heart-warming, and
utterly modern comedy-of-errors tale. Director
Christian Ditter adapts to film “Love, Rosie” where Lily Collins and Sam
Claflin star as Rosie and Alex, childhood friends seemingly destined to be
together, yet a couple which fate itself seems determined to keep apart. The
film paints a rich and textured canvas of a complicated yet lifelong bond
between Rosie and Alex, beginning in their childhood, spanning a trans-Atlantic
separation, and enduring ups and downs of romantic liaisons with everyone but
each other resulting in some bittersweet consequences.
“The story is about two people who
really have a deep love for each other, but are constantly being pulled apart,”
explains acclaimed Irish author, Cecelia Ahern, whose novel, "Where
Rainbows End", was the source material for the film. “I wrote "Where
Rainbows End" a couple of months after I had finished "P.S. I Love
You,” she says of the follow-up to her first novel, written when she was only
21 years old.
“How do you adapt a book that’s all
texts and emails,” says filmmaker Brooks of one of the project’s biggest
challenges – the novel’s epistolary structure, composed around the emails,
letters and text messages which Alex and Rosie exchange. “How do you make that
into a movie?” Around the same time,
Hollywood producer Robert Kulzer of Constantin Film, found himself in a
bookstore back in his native Germany – a country, notably, where the Irish
author has one of her most loyal followings.
To adapt Ahern’s novel to the
screen, Kulzer and Brooks turned to the British screenwriter Juliette Towhidi,
whose credits include the 2003 award-winning hit comedy, Calendar Girls, with
Helen Mirren and Julie Walters. “She was
like a detective,” says Kulzer of Towhidi’s process of adapting Ahern’s unconventional
novel. “She was extracting plot and story points, creating her own world around
these episodes that Cecilia had created in her novel.”
Still,
most crucial to the film’s overall success, would be the actor’s cast in the two
leading roles – Rosie and Alex – best friends destined to be something more
who’ve never managed to get their act together. Finding the perfect actors to
portray them on screen would prove a simpler proposition, however, with the
casting of Lily Collins and Sam Claflin – the filmmakers’ first and only
choices for the roles. Amongst the bright young faces in the Love,
Rosie cast are: Jaime Winstone (daughter of British actor, Ray Winstone), here
playing Rosie’s friend and confidante, Ruby; London fashion model Suki
Waterhouse (Pusher), marking her second feature film role as Rosie’s rival,
Bethany; rising star Tamsin Egerton (The Look of Love) as Sally, and Christian
Cooke ("Magic City") as Greg, a local
who takes more than a casual interest in Rosie.
“Jaime, Tamsin, Suki – all of them;
I think we got lucky,” says producer, Simon Brooks of the ensemble. “The movie
is fresh, kind of hip and cool and we got a cast that is young, fresh, hip and cool.”
Love
winds and finds ways - “Lovie, Rosie” opens January 8 in theatres from Pioneer
Films.
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