While he has taken part in a string of blockbuster disappointments from Green Lantern to John Carter, it’s difficult not to appreciate the work of Mark Strong. The talented Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy star is gearing up for a strong year’s end with Zero Dark Thirty and now Variety reports on another promising title launching at the American Film Market.
Reported on earlier this year, Nicole Kidman is already lined up to lead the next film from Brighton Rock director Rowan Joffe, a psychological thriller titled Before I Go to Sleep. Based on S.J. Watson‘s novel, Strong has now joined the film as a doctor to Kidman, who has to deal with her instant memory loss. Waking up remembering nothing each morning, Kidman’s character slowly realizing, through the help of strong, that her “husband” is not who she thinks he is. Check out a longer synopsis below via Amazon:
“Every day Christine wakes up not knowing where she is. Her memories disappear every time she falls asleep. Her husband, Ben, is a stranger to her, and he’s obligated to explain their life together on a daily basis–all the result of a mysterious accident that made Christine an amnesiac. With the encouragement of her doctor, Christine starts a journal to help jog her memory every day. One morning, she opens it and sees that she’s written three unexpected and terrifying words: “Don’t trust Ben.” Suddenly everything her husband has told her falls under suspicion. What kind of accident caused her condition? Who can she trust? Why is Ben lying to her? And, for the reader: Can Christine’s story be trusted? At the heart of S. J. Watson’s Before I Go To Sleep is the petrifying question: How can anyone function when they can’t even trust themselves?”
Before I Go To Sleep is expected to begin a London production in early 2013.
What do you make of this duo teaming?