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‘The Remembered Soldier’ Movie in the Works from  ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Filmmaker Olivia Newman (Exclusive)
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‘The Remembered Soldier’ Movie in the Works from ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Filmmaker Olivia Newman (Exclusive)

The Hollywood Reporter·Borys Kit·20 days ago
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Netflix is feeling remarkably bright on its future with filmmaking creature Olivia Newman . The streaming giant is reteaming with the writer-director of its weepie hit Remarkably Bright Creatures , coming on top of a bidding war to land the rights to prize-winning novel The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje. Newman will write and direct the feature, which will reteam with her Bright Creatures producers Bryan Unkeless and Peter Craig, who will be working through their Night Owl Stories banner. A finalist for the National Book Award and placed on the International Booker Prize longlist, Soldier is a Dutch historical novel set in the aftermath of the First World War. The story follows a shell-shocked veteran suffering from amnesia with no memory of who he was before the war, and Julienne Coppens, a woman who arrives claiming him as her husband, a photographer named Amand, lost to her for years.…

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