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Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch to star in War of the Roses remake
‘Dream team’ will reimagine black comedy about an epic divorce battle, which originally starred Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas
In an announcement , studio Searchlight Pictures said that Colman and Cumberbatch would appear in a new version of the story directed by Austin Powers’ Jay Roach and written by Poor Things’ Tony McNamara. The original film version of The Wars of the Roses was released in 1989, and starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as an apparently well-matched couple whose marriage breakdown turns into an epic battle of wills over the divorce settlement. Production companies associated with both lead actors are involved: Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch, which is also credited on The End We Start From, The Courier, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, and Colman’s South of the River (Wicked Little Lies).
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