The Playlist is reporting that Rachel Portman is set to compose the music for Lone Scherfig‘s One Day, her follow-up to the Oscar-nominated An Education. Having received glowing reviews for scoring Mark Romanek‘s dystopian drama Never Let Me Go, Portman‘s upcoming is sure to be anticipated by many.
On the surface, the promise for One Day is through the roof. The cast includes Oscar co-host Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess (The Way Back), Patricia Clarkson, Rafe Spall, and Romola Garai. For the second time in a row, Scherfig went with the adaptation route for her screenplay, this time basing her work on David Nicholls‘ novel of the same name, which is described by Amazon as follows:
The episodic story takes place during a single day each year for two decades in the lives of Dex and Em. Dexter, the louche public school boy, and Emma, the brainy Yorkshire lass, meet the day they graduate from university in 1988 and run circles around one another for the next 20 years. Dex becomes a TV presenter whose life of sex, booze, and drugs spins out of control, while Em dully slogs her way through awful jobs before becoming the author of young adult books. They each take other lovers and spouses, but they cannot really live without each other.
Even though I wasn’t the biggest fan of An Education, this premise catches my interest, and I’ll probably take in the novel before seeing the film — it will be released on July 8.
Portman also has scores in the works for Bel Ami, starring Robert Pattinson, and The Vow, starring Rachel McAdams.
What do you think of Portman’s work? Are you excited for One Day?