Rachel McAdams in talks to join Rachel Weisz in ‘lesbian love drama’ ‘Disobedience’

Rachel McAdams is in talks for to join Rachel Weisz in the ‘lesbian love drama’ Disobedience, so reports Variety. The planned film will be based on the book of the same name by Naomi Alderman who was handed the prestigious Granta Best Young British Novelist award in the recent past.

The film is set to star production in the first part of 2017 and the trade says that Weisz will also produce the adaptation which Sebastian Lelio will direct from the script he co-wrote with Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

Here’s the plot from the source material.

Naomi Alderman’s Disobedience is an insightful and witty novel on the search for love, tolerance and faith.

By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.But when Ronit’s father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. And when she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind.

McAdams will next be seen in Marvel’s Doctor Strange which debuts at the end of the month.

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