Vertigo Releasing has acquired Polly Steele's Four Letters of Love, starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne. Fionn O’Shea and Ann Skelly are also among the cast.
The film is a Genesius Pictures, AX1 Films and Port Pictures production in association with London Town Films. It is produced by BAFTA Award nominee Debbie Gray and Douglas Cummins and Irish producer Martina Niland. With funding from Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, with the support of WRAP, and Northern Ireland Screen.
The film is described as “a life-affirming tale about faith and doubt, maybes and almosts, and the miracle of love.”
In the film, Nicholas (O’Shea) and Isabel (Skelly) are made for each other, but as destiny pulls them together, so do family, passion, and faith drive them apart. Nicholas’ father, William (Brosnan), comes home one day to shatter his family’s quiet, modest life. He tells them that after a moment of divine revelation, he has decided to dedicate his life to painting. He quits his job and sets off for the Western coast, leaving his shell shocked wife and son to fend for themselves. Meanwhile, Isabel and her family live a charmed existence on a remote Western island, their house full of music and poetry. When tragedy strikes and her brother suffers a terrible accident, the music stops, and Isabel’s mother (Bonham Carter) and father (Byrne) decide in their grief to send Isabel to a convent school on the mainland. The young lovers embark on their own individual journeys of heartache and misplaced love, before fate contrives to pull the threads of their lives together. When they meet, it is a miracle.
Vertigo Head of Acquisitions & Business Development Ed Caffrey said: “We’re delighted to team with Cornerstone and Debbie Gray again on such a beautiful, emotional film.”
Williams’ novel was first published in 1997 and was translated into more than 30 languages before he adapted it for the screen. Heads of department include composer Anne Nitikan, production designer John Leslie, cinematographer Damien Elliot, costume designer Susan Scott, hair and make-up designer Natalie Reid and editor Chris Gill ACE with an original song performed by Johnny Flynn. The film was shot on Location in Co. Donegal & Co. Antrim.
Four Letters of Love will be released in UK and Irish cinemas in Spring 2025.
