Screen Star Of Tomorrow 2015 cast in UK drama from Number 9 Films.
Billy Howle (The Sense Of An Ending) will play the lead role of Edward Mayhew opposite Saoirse Ronan’s (Brooklyn) Florence Ponting in On Chesil Beach, the1960’s set story about a young couple on their honeymoon.
Set to begin principal photography in October, the feature film adapted by Ian McEwan from his 2007 Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, will be directed by the previously announced Dominic Cooke (The Hollow Crown). Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley of Number 9 Films produce.
Lionsgate has UK rights. The film was developed in conjunction with the BBC.
Howle, a Screen Star Of Tomorrow 2015, is represented by Curtis Brown and CAA.