Following the release of her new drama film, "Denial," English actress Rachel Weisz is already moving on to another project. Recent reports revealed that the actress is set to lead and produce a movie adaptation of Naomi Alderman's novel, "Disobedience."
According to Variety, Weisz will serve as co-producer together with Ed Guiney and Frida Torresblanco for Alderman's novel adaptation. The actress also will take on the role of Ronit Krushka, a daughter of a rabbi who flew away from home to live a life in Manhattan.
The production of the movie is still on its way, thus movie posters and trailers are yet to be released.
Weisz has been productive with her lineup of projects this year. She has taken on several acting projects, with lead roles in movies like "The Light Between Oceans" and "Denial."
Additionally, the award-winning actress just finished filming for "My Cousin Rachel" by Fox Searchlight studio, and "The Mercy," a James Marsh movie creation. Both movies will debut next year. She also starred in the 2015 sci-fi film "The Lobster" with co-lead Colin Farrell.
"Disobedience" Synopsis
The film centers on a woman who must return to the London Orthodox Jewish community, which she left years ago. She comes back after the death of her preeminent rabbi father. Her return then causes troubles in the quiet community when she tries to win back a repressed love with her best friend -- a woman who is now married to her cousin.
Krushka is thirty-two and single, and she lives in Manhattan's Upper West Side. Her family's faith and religion as Orthodox Judaism is a suffocating culture for her, which moved her to flee long ago. She then receives news that her estranged father has died, so she decides to return home for the first time in years.
Amid the traditional ebb and flow of the Jewish community, Krushka reminds herself of her only two missions for her return: to mourn and to collect a single heirloom - her mother's Shabbat candlesticks. But as days come, as Krushka reconnects with her complex cousin Dovid as well as with a forbidden childhood sweetheart who are now married to each other, she becomes more than just a stranger; she seems to become a threat to the peaceful life of everyone.
Set at a time where tradition fights with modernity, where personal desires compete with the demands of God, "Disobedience" is generally about the importance of moving on and about the tendency of people to disobey.
The movie "Disobedience" will be directed by a Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio based on a script co-written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Release date of the movie is still unannounced.
