Pierce Brosnan and Rosamund Pike to star in `Caitlin`

[Blowfeld]

Pierce Brosnan and Rosamun Piked, who starred in the 2002 James Bond film "Die Another Day", will be together again for the 2008 production "Caitlin".

The film's story surrounds a love affair started in a Bloomsbury pub in the spring of 1936. A young Irish dancer called Caitlin Macnamara sat on a stool at the bar: blonde, blue-eyed and drinking gin. To the drunken Welsh poet who staggered towards her through the smokey fug of The Wheatsheaf, she appeared an angelic beauty. And when finally the poet reached her, eccentrically laying his head in her lap, he mumbled a proposal of marriage.

This unorthodox first encounter between Dylan Thomas and his wife is a central part of the Bohemian mythology that surrounds the memory of one of Britain's best loved creative talents.

The story is being financially backed by actor Pierce Brosnan, a devoted Thomas fan, who will also play the poet's agent John Malcolm Brinnin. Rosamund Pike has been cast as Young Caitlin Thomas, with Miranda Richardson taking the older role. Caitlin is to be directed by Marc Evans and the screenplay has been written by Jeff Murphy. It is scheduled for release in 2008.