Fashion designer Tom Ford is putting together one Hell of a cast for his Anne Rice adaptation, Cry to Heaven, one that guarantees it will be one of the most-watched productions in recent memory. They’re going to need to close the set to keep the cameras away from this one.
Deadline reports Cry to Heaven will feature Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Colin Firth, Paul Bettany, Hunter Schafer, Owen Cooper, Mark Strong, George MacKay, Thandiwe Newton, and singer Adele in her first major acting role. Damn! That’s not all, because Josephine Thiesen, Theodore Pellerin, Daryl McCormack, Cassian Bilton, Hauk Hannemann, and Lux Pascal are in the cast, as well.
This is just the third movie directed by Ford, following his breakout debut A Single Man in 2009, and 2016’s Nocturnal Animals. Ford reunites with Hoult and Firth who starred in his first film, and Taylor-Johnson, who was in the second.
Published in 1982, Cry to Heaven is set in the opera world of 18th-century Italy.
Here’s the book synopsis: In a sweeping saga of music and vengeance, the acclaimed author of “The Vampire Chronicles” draws readers into eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to life the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. This is the story of the castrati, the exquisite and otherworldly sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices win the adulation of royal courts and grand opera houses throughout Europe. These men are revered as idols, and, at the same time, scorned for all they are not.
Ford takes him time deciding on what he’s going to do next, and so far his choices have turned out to be cinematic events. Cry to Heaven looks to be no different, and with Rice’s huge fanbase, it should be the biggest film of his career.
