Mirren, Postlethwaite are 'Rock' solid

Helen Mirren and Pete Postlethwaite have joined the cast of director’s Rowan Joffe's "Brighton Rock." The two actors join the previously cast Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough.

The film is an adaptation of Graham Greene's classic novel "Brighton Rock," about a young gangster who marries a waitress who has witnessed a murder he has committed to keep her quiet.

Greene's novel was previously adapted into a film in 1947. Richard Attenborough and Carol Marsh starred in that version which was directed by John Boulting.

According to Variety, the new project will go back to the original source material rather than film for its inspiration. It will now be set in 1964 rather than the book's original setting of 1939.

U.K. distributor Optimum Releasing is executive producing the project with backing from its French owner StudioCanal. Paul Webster is producing for Kudos with BBC Films also on board as a co-producer.

Shooting on the $10-12 million project will start this October.

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