Terence Davies adapting 'Sorrows'

Davies 'Mother of Sorrows'British auteur Terence Davies is developing a feature based on "Mother of Sorrows," the prize-winning 2005 debut novel by American Richard McCann.Davies is concentrating on the project with Leopardrama, the fiction arm located in london and NY-based production group Argonon. They have development funding within the EU's Media program."Mother of Sorrows" includes 10 connected tales about two teenage brothers and sisters dealing with the dying from the father as well as the influence from the strong, complex mother. The novel won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award and was nominated for your Stonewall Book Award for gay fiction."It becomes an important story because it touches the humanity in many people,Inch Davies mentioned. "I like the delicacy in the book which is gentle journey from publish-World war ii optimism for your American Paradise with a much much deeper understanding of both maternal and filial love plus an acceptance of mortality by quitting for the light."Davies most recently directed 19 fifties-set melodrama "The Dark Blue Sea," starring Rachel Weisz, which is next set to shoot his extended-anticipated adaptation of classic Scottish novel "Sunset Song," put together by Lewis Grassic Gibbon in 1932.His last film shot inside the U.S. was "The Neon Bible" in 1995, though more youthful crowd modified Edith Wharton's novel "Home of Mirth" in 2000, using Glasgow for NY.Leopardrama, headed by Joey Attawia, Jez Swimer and David Chikwe, co-produced low-budget Brit thriller "The Holding" a year ago making "An Englishman in NY," starring John Hurt, last season.Father or mother company Argonon has furthermore introduced that it's 3d film of Matthew Bourne's output of the ballet "Swan Lake," that's due in U.K. cinemas this year, remains acquired by specialist arts distrib More2Screen for release in than 600 theaters worldwide. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com