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‘Grantchester’ Actor Tom Brittney, Corestar Media & ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ Author Adapting Story Of Woman Accused Of Murder After Suicide Pact With Terminally Ill Husband
Tom Brittney, Deborah Moggach and Corestar Media are adapting the story Mavis Eccleston, who was tried murder over an assisted dying pact, for screen.
Corestar Media has acquired the dramatic rights to Mavis Eccleston’s story, who took the agonizing decision to end her life alongside husband of six decades Dennis, who was in terrible pain from cancer. The feature, Goodnight Darling, will follow how the 79-year-old Mavis was arrested and tried for murder, only to be unanimously found not guilty, and then began a campaign with her family to change the law to allow people to take the choice of assisted dying. He said the emotive subject required a “delicate hand” and praised Moggach, whose novel was turned into a 2011 British comedy-drama starring the likes of Maggie Smith, Dev Patel and Judi Dench, for telling the story “with great sensitivity, empathy and love.”
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