Ok, this could be yet another novel adaptation, but if you’re fan of romantic stories, then I’m sure you’ll be happy to hear that Helen Simonson‘s novel titled Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand is coming to the big screen.
Producers Paula Mazur, Mitchell Kaplan and Kevin McCormick have acquired screen rights to the whole thing, and according to the latest reports, Jack Thorne will be in charge for adaptation.
Simonson’s novel, published last year, centers on an English widower who’s mourning the loss of his younger brother amid a growing friendship with the Pakistani widow of the local food shop owner in a countryside village.
Thanks to Variety we know that project is being developed at Mazur Kaplan Co. and Warner Bros-based Langley Park Pictures, which McCormick launched last year. Check out the rest of this report for a novel description.
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand is “…the story of Maj. Ernest Pettigrew, an honor-bound Englishman and widower, and the very embodiment of duty and pride. As the novel opens, the major is mourning the loss of his younger brother, Bertie, and attempting to get his hands on Bertie’s antique Churchill shotgun – part of a set that the boys’ father split between them, but which Bertie’s widow doesn’t want to hand over.
While the major is eager to reunite the pair for tradition’s sake, his son, Roger, has plans to sell the heirloom set to a collector for a tidy sum. As he frets over the guns, the major’s friendship with Jasmina Ali – the Pakistani widow of the local food shop owner – takes a turn unexpected by the major (but not by readers).
The author’s dense, descriptive prose wraps around the reader like a comforting cloak, eventually taking on true page-turner urgency as Simonson nudges the major and Jasmina further along and dangles possibilities about the fate of the major’s beloved firearms.”
With every new update on this project we’ll be right here, so make sure you stay tuned!
