It started shooting just las tweek, but today we can bring you our first look at Lone Sherfig‘s Their Finest Hour and a Half, a brand new WWII movie starring Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy. The film is described as a screwball battle of the sexes infused with the reality of filmmaking under threat of invasion and London in the Blitz.
Word also reaches us today that Jack Huston and Jake Lacy have joined the growing cast, which includes Sam Claflin, Richard E. Grant, Helen McCrory, Eddie Marsan, Rachael Stirling and Henry Goodman.
Here’s the first official image of Arterton and Nighy in the film.
[quote_box_center]Shooting began last week in London on THEIR FINEST HOUR AND A HALF, a romantic comedy with a difference set in the early 1940’s. THEIR FINEST HOUR AND A HALF combines the quick-fire repartee of a screwball battle of the sexes infused with the reality of filmmaking under threat of invasion and London in the Blitz. A witty, warm-hearted and moving portrayal of a young woman screenwriter finding her way in matters of life, death and the heart.
BBC Films developed and will co-finance THEIR FINEST HOUR AND A HALF, with Wales Screen and Pinewood Films. Produced by Oscar-nominated producers Number 9 Films and Wildgaze Films, led by Stephen Woolley (Carol, Made in Dagenham) and Amanda Posey (Brooklyn, An Education), it has been adapted for the screen by Gaby Chiappe from Lissa Evans’s comic and heartbreaking novel. International sales are being handled by Hanway Film. The film is being released by Lionsgate Films in the UK.[/quote_box_center]
Their Finest Hour and a Half will be released in 2016.
