Written by David Morgan

VIA: Variety

 

Guy Pearce, Miranda Otto, and Sam Neill will lead the cast of the forthcoming Australian true-crime film How to Change in Nine Weeks, adapted from the novel Perfect Victim by Elizabeth Southall and Megan Norris. Co-written by Tony Cavanaugh with director Simone North, the film tells story of "15-year-old Melbourne ballet dancer Rachel Barber who was murdered by her deeply disturbed childhood friend Caroline Reid." Pearce and Otto will play Barber's parents while Neill and Rebecca Gibney will play Reid's parents. Kate Bell and Ruth Murphy will play Barber and Reid.

 

Thom Mount is co-producing while, and this is the most exciting part of the film as far as I'm concerned, Sidney Lumet has agreed to act as mentor for the director. If you can get past the fact that it's kind of weird that some unknown Australian director is asking a seemingly random American director for help, it's pretty cool. Lumet has directed some of the best movies ever made. 12 Angry Men, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, and so on. The man's a borderline legend (never quite as big as some of his contemporaries). What in the hell he's going to be doing for North on the project though, I have no idea.

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