With its Toronto International Film Festival premiere imminent, a first look clip has been released of Rowan Joffé’s adaptation and revisioning of Graham Greene’s gangster drama “Brighton Rock.”
The film — which relocates the setting to the swingin’ ’60s — follows of the story of Pinkie, an up-and-coming and evidently scarred gangster who marries a naive waitress after she stumbles onto evidence linking him to a murder. Rising thespians Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough star as the aforementioned couple while Helen Mirren and John Hurt play an older couple trying to save Riseborough’s character from her marriage, as clearly exhibited in the clip below.
It’ll also be the directorial debut of Joffé who adapted the novel having previously made a name for himself penning such films as Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s “28 Weeks Later” and Anton Corbijn’s “The American” starring George Clooney.
“Brighton Rock” doesn’t have a North American distributor as of yet but, like all the others sans distribution, it’s hoping to score one from its Toronto appearance.