Stephen Frears Meets TAMARA DREWE!!

Merrick here...
Stephen Frears (THE QUEEN) will direct a live-action adaptation of Posy Simmond's graphic novel TAMARA DREWE - which itself was amassed from a serialized strip in The Guardian.

Brit thesp Gemma Arterton will play Drewe, a sexy flirt who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals.

...says Variety HERE. Arterton's career has gone into overdrive lately; she recently appeared in QUANTUM OF SOLACE and Richard Curtis' THE BOAT THAT ROCKED, and will be seen in Louis Leterrier's forthcoming CLASH OF THE TITANS remake, Bruckheimer's PRINCE OF PERSIA adaptation, and a new version of WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Frears also brought us DANGEROUS LIASONS, THE GRIFTERS, DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, and more. Learn more about TAMARA DREWE, and find it, HERE.