Sophie Hyde will deal with one other unconventional relationship in her subsequent pic. The Australian writer-director will comply with up Emma Thompson-starrer “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” a comedy a few retired college instructor who hires a intercourse employee with the hopes of experiencing her first orgasm, with “An Ideal Wife,” the story of Constance Lloyd, an Irish creator and feminist activist who was married to Oscar Wilde. “Game of Thrones” alumna Emilia Clarke will star within the title, which can be shopped at this week’s American Film Market. Variety broke the information.
“An Ideal Wife” will “shed light on Lloyd,” who “took part in the dress reform movement, which campaigned to allow women to dress in comfortable clothing rather than the stifling Victorian dresses of the era,” per the supply. “Lloyd married Wilde in 1884 and the couple had two sons. However, after Wilde received a two-year prison term for homosexuality, which was still illegal at the time (it would only be decriminalized in England and Wales in 1967), Lloyd moved to Switzerland with their children, and distanced them from the writer.”
Plot particulars are being saved underneath wraps. The movie’s title is a nod to one among Wilde’s most well-known performs, “An Ideal Husband.”
A four-time Emmy nominee for her portrayal of Daenerys Targaryen on “Game of Thrones,” Clarke’s movie credit embrace “Me Before You,” “Last Christmas,” and “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”
Hyde made her characteristic debut with “52 Tuesdays,” a coming-of-age drama that netted her directing honors for World Cinema – Dramatic on the 2014 version of Sundance Film Festival. Her sophomore providing, “Animals,” the story of long-time finest buddies at a crossroads, received finest debut screenplay on the British Independent Film Awards.
“Someone once told me not to have children if I wanted to be a director. That would have made my life smaller, personally speaking,” Hyde advised us. “There is no one answer to how we build our lives and so there shouldn’t be a kind of life you have to give up to tell stories, in fact, we should be seeking stories from people with a broad range of experience. That way we get the most interesting and varied stories, right?”