![]() ![]() Between them, Mendes, Nick Brown, Caro Newling and Dame Pippa Harris are also responsible for staging Stefano Massini’s acclaimed theatrical event, The Lehman Trilogy. ![]() Inside the Covent Garden offices Mendes shares with three partner producers, there is no question of taking a rest after the run of hits they have enjoyed. “There’s a whole raft of good books that fall into that category and now we are in a position where we can tell it differently.” ![]() “There are lots of modern classics like this one which were compressed into movies in the past and perhaps lost something by squeezing them, instead of telling them over several hours,” said Mendes. Fowles wrote the book, which was made into a film in 1968, after teaching English at a school on Spetses, and it tells the story of the enigmatic and reclusive resident of an island villa who controls the lives of those who come into his orbit. The director believes the twisting, layered plot of the 1965 bestseller will be suited to television. ![]()
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