![]() ![]() “Having been a huge fan of Max Porter’s extraordinary book and Enda Walsh’s stage adaptation I was skeptical about a film adaptation,” said Cumberbatch. In 2019, Irish playwright Enda Walsh adapted Grief into an acclaimed stage play starring Cillian Murphy (who won an Irish Times Theatre Award for “Best Actor” for his performance). This will actually be the second major adaptation of Porter’s debut. ![]() This mysterious creature, known as “Crow,” seemingly brought to life from the pages of his work as an illustrator, becomes a very real part of all their lives, ultimately guiding them towards the new shape family must take. Porter’s debut, which won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was named a Sunday Times ‘Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-first Century’ back in 2016, is a hybrid work of prose and poetry about a crow who visits a grieving family of a Ted Hughes scholar and his two young boys.Ĭumberbatch will play a young father whose hold on reality crumbles following his wife’s death as a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons. ![]() Benedict Cumberbatch-the Oscar-nominated star of Power of the Dog, The Imitation Game, and Patrick Melrose, as well as all of those epilepsy-inducing Marvel movies-has signed on to play the lead (not the crow) in an upcoming film adaptation of Max Porter’s 2015 novel, Grief is the Thing With Feathers. ![]()
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