Roxanne filmmaker Fred Schepisi is set to direct an upcoming film titled Burnt Piano, an adaptation of Justin Fleming's eponymous stage play, reports Variety. The film brings together a set of English, American, and Australian actors, including Geoffrey Rush, Isabelle Huppert, Ray Winstone, and Abbie Cornish. Described as a blend of "tragedy, mystery, drama, and comedy," the film is helmed by Schepisi from a screenplay adapted by Fleming himself. High Country star Tarquin Cameron is also part of the cast.
It follows Cornish's bookstore owner character, who grows such an infatuation with Rush's Samuel Beckett that she must meet the playwright, a desire that her writer father (Winstone) and the playwright's overprotective spouse (Huppert) do not fancy. Cameron plays Cornish's troubled son.
Janice Eymann is producing the film under Filmworks, alongside Stuart Quin of Full Circle Productions. Michael Ryan is serving as an executive producer. As per the makers, Burnt Piano is set to go on floors in Paris for the most part, with a week-long schedule in Australia.