Danny Glover, Sophie Okonedo and Chiwetel Ejiofor are said to be in negotiations to star in a big screen adaptation of Hatian American author Edwidge Danticat's 3rd novel, The Dew Breaker.
French producer Illan Girard's Paris-based Arsam Intl. and Canada's Transfilm will co-produce the movie and are working on a co-production deal with a U.K. company. The director and screenwriter will be Dominic Savage, who has only made TV movies for the BBC thus far in his career.
The $5 million budgeted drama tells a series of related stories around a shadowy central figure, a Haitian immigrant living in Brooklyn, NYC, who reveals to his artist daughter that he is not, as she believes, a prison escapee, but a former prison guard, skilled in torture and the other violent control methods of a brutal regime - specifically the Tonton Macoute, the paramilitary force that worked for the Papa Doc Duvalier dictatorship in the 1960s.The movie will be filmed in Guadeloupe and Montreal.
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