{"id":567768,"date":"2026-05-05T17:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567768\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:27:16","slug":"whit-stillman-sets-big-screen-return-with-a-night-at-claridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567768\/","title":{"rendered":"Whit Stillman Sets Big Screen Return with A Night at Claridge’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhit Stillman<\/a> has set his return to the big screen for the first time in 10 years. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA Night at Claridge\u2019s\u201d (working title) marks the Oscar-nominated filmmaker\u2019s first feature since 2016\u2019s \u201cLove & Friendship,\u201d and will reunite the director with \u201cNobody Wants This\u201d star Adam Brody<\/a> following their previous collaborations on \u201cDamsels in Distress\u201d and \u201cThe Cosmopolitan.\u201d Meanwhile, \u201cDownton Abbey\u201d star Laura Carmichael<\/a> has been cast as the lead. <\/p>\n

\n\tAltitude<\/a> will introduce the project to buyers in Cannes. <\/p>\n

\n\tSet in autumn 1943 in the build-up to D-Day as South England is flooded with American soldiers, \u201cA Night at Claridge\u2019s\u201d follows Miss Roach (Carmichael), a publisher\u2019s reader bombed out of her London flat who is relieved to find lodgings outside town and start a friendship with Vicki, a vivacious German woman. But at the boarding house her life is made hell by Mr. Thwaites, a preposterous bully.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs per the synopsis, the arrival of a happy-go-lucky American officer, Lt. Dayton Pike, offers escape, but her new friend Vicki likes him too. An intense psychological battle begins, leading to a violent incident and a death. Guilt and a fiance she can\u2019t trust push Miss Roach to the limit. But a mysterious man, an eccentric boss and an otherworldly elegant hotel lead to a resolution.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso joining the cast is Tom Bennett, following his star turn as the loveable Sir James Martin in Stillman\u2019s \u201cLove & Friendship,\u201d and British acting icon and multi-Emmy Award-winning actress Susan Hampshire of \u201cThe Forsyte Saga.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStillman adapted the screenplay based on Patrick Hamilton\u2019s 1943-set, \u201cThe Slaves of Solitude,\u201d considered by many to be his greatest novel. Hamilton was also a playwright, most notably with \u201cGaslight\u201d and \u201cRope\u201d which were later made into movies by George Cukor and Alfred Hitchcock. The title of the former film spawned the English verb \u201cto gaslight\u201d or \u201cgaslighting,\u201d manipulating an environment so the victim questions his own sanity.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA Night at Claridge\u2019s\u201d will be produced by Georgina Lowe (\u201cHard Truths,\u201d \u201cMr. Turner\u201d), Valencia Haynes, and Suzanne Warren (\u201cHacksaw Ridge,\u201d \u201cThe Last King Of Scotland\u201d) via their SOS Productions Ltd. Lauranne Bourrachot (\u201cLove & Friendship,\u201d \u201cA Prophet\u201d) of Le Spectre, Paris, is the French co-producer. John Sloss will serve as executive producer and will also handle domestic rights via Cinetic Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whit Stillman has set his return to the big screen for the first time in 10 years. \u201cA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64359,98274,6491,96,194526,56,54,55,194527],"class_list":["post-567768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-adam-brody","tag-altitude","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-laura-carmichael","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-whit-stillman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}