VERTIGO RELEASING ACQUIRES PIERCE BROSNAN AND HELENA BONHAM CARTER MAGICAL ROMANCE ‘FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE’
Date Posted: September 3, 2024
Based on Niall Williams’ international bestselling novel, Vertigo Releasing acquires rights for the UK and Ireland with plans to release the title Spring 2025.
Vertigo Releasing is excited to announce the acquisition of FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE, from award-winning filmmaker Polly Steele (Let Me Go, Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras). The film stars Pierce Brosnan (Black Adam, Mamma Mia, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again), two-time Academy Award nominee and BAFTA Award-winner Helena Bonham Carter (The Crown, Enola Holmes 1&2, Ocean’s 8), and Golden Globe-winner Gabriel Byrne (War Of The Worlds, Hereditary) as parents of the fated lovers played by rising stars Fionn O’Shea (Normal People, Dance First, Dating Amber) and Ann Skelly (The Nevers, Kissing Candice, Rose Plays Julie).
FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE is a Genesius Pictures, AX1 Films and Port Pictures production in association with London Town Films. It is produced by BAFTA Award nominee Debbie Gray (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Mrs. Lowry & Son) and Douglas Cummins (Let Me Go, The Girl) and Irish producer Martina Niland (Once, Sing Street). With funding from Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, with the support of WRAP (the Western Region Audiovisual Producer’s Fund), and Northern Ireland Screen.
FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE is a life-affirming tale about faith and doubt, maybes and almosts, and the miracle of love.
Nicholas (O’Shea) and Isabel (Skelly) are made for each other, but as destiny pulls them together, so do family, passion, and faith drive them apart.
Nicholas’ father, William (Brosnan), comes home one day to shatter his family’s quiet, modest life. He tells them that after a moment of divine revelation, he has decided to dedicate his life to painting. He quits his job and sets off for the Western coast, leaving his shell shocked wife and son to fend for themselves.
Meanwhile, Isabel and her family live a charmed existence on a remote Western island, their house full of music and poetry. When tragedy strikes and her brother suffers a terrible accident, the music stops, and Isabel’s mother (Bonham Carter) and father (Byrne) decide in their grief to send Isabel to a convent school on the mainland.
The young lovers embark on their own individual journeys of heartache and misplaced love, before fate contrives to pull the threads of their lives together. When they meet, it is a miracle.
The deal was negotiated between Cornerstone and Ed Caffrey of Vertigo.
Vertigo Head of Acquisitions & Business Development Ed Caffrey says “We’re delighted to team with Cornerstone and Debbie Gray again on such a beautiful, emotional film.”
Williams’ beloved novel was first published in 1997 and was translated into more than 30 languages before he adapted it for the screen. Heads of department include composer Anne Nitikan, production designer John Leslie, cinematographer Damien Elliot, costume designer Susan Scott, hair and make-up designer Natalie Reid and editor Chris Gill ACE with an original song performed by Johnny Flynn. The film was shot on Location in Co. Donegal & Co. Antrim.
FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE will be released in UK and Irish cinemas in Spring 2025.
