‘Chaplin’ screenwriter William Boyd has adapted the true story.
Ivan Mactaggart, the UK producer whose credits include the Oscar-nominated animation Loving Vincent, has joined period drama The Galapagos Affair, written by William Boyd.
Mactaggart will produce through Cambridge Picture Company alongside Michael Kelk of Wire Films. Kelk previously developed the project with Working Title Films.
Based on a true story and set in the late 1920s, it centres on German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, as their leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana.
But their solitude is disrupted...
Ivan Mactaggart, the UK producer whose credits include the Oscar-nominated animation Loving Vincent, has joined period drama The Galapagos Affair, written by William Boyd.
Mactaggart will produce through Cambridge Picture Company alongside Michael Kelk of Wire Films. Kelk previously developed the project with Working Title Films.
Based on a true story and set in the late 1920s, it centres on German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, as their leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana.
But their solitude is disrupted...
- 12/19/2019
- by ¬0¦James Ashworth¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Ivan Mactaggart, the UK producer whose credits include Oscar-nominated animation Loving Vincent and Judi Dench starrer Red Joan, is teaming with scribe William Boyd (Chaplin) on period feature The Galapagos Affair.
Set in the late 1920s and based on a true story, the pic will follow German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, as they leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana.
Their peace and solitude is disrupted by the arrival of the glamorous ‘Baroness’ Eloise Wagner de Bosquet and her two young lovers. Disturbed by the Baroness, Friedrich and Dore’s island paradise gradually descends in a spiral of jealousy, resentment, violence and eventually murder.
The pic is based on the historical book by John Treherne and was also previously told in 2013 documentary Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden, which was directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller...
Set in the late 1920s and based on a true story, the pic will follow German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, as they leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana.
Their peace and solitude is disrupted by the arrival of the glamorous ‘Baroness’ Eloise Wagner de Bosquet and her two young lovers. Disturbed by the Baroness, Friedrich and Dore’s island paradise gradually descends in a spiral of jealousy, resentment, violence and eventually murder.
The pic is based on the historical book by John Treherne and was also previously told in 2013 documentary Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden, which was directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller...
- 12/17/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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