One Day: The Anticipation Builds

December 6, 2010

By Kristin Fritz

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Update January 12, 2011: “One Day” gets prime release date of July 8, 2011.

As if we weren’t already excited for the film adaptation of One Day, now David Nicholls’ novel has made its way onto the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2010 list.

Filming for “One Day” recently wrapped and we’re waiting on the edge of our seats to see how director Lone Scherfig has brought the love story from page to film, especially after the magic she made with “An Education.” We recently caught up with Lone, and she told us, “It’s been a thrill to rebuild David Nicholls’ beloved book, One Day, as cinema, and a privilege to work with David’s own film script, always safeguarding the warmth of the novel and its double portrait of two unforgettable characters in a complex era.”

Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway/Photo by Giles Keyte/Focus Features

The film, which will star Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, and Patricia Clarkson, is in post-production and set for a fall Summer 2011 release. It’s going to be an especially busy year for Hathaway, who recently accepted the job of Academy Awards co-host, alongside another omnipresent and lit-affiliated actor, James Franco.

Random House Films President and editor of the Vintage edition of the novel Peter Gethers said, “It’s been very satisfying to watch One Day become an international publishing phenomenon because its success is due to one simple thing — people loved it. I remember the exhilaration of reading the manuscript in my office, laughing and crying, and thinking: I have to publish this book!  It’s been just as satisfying watching Lone keep the essence and integrity of David’s novel while turning it into a film that’s her own.”

Have you read the novel yet? If not, now’s the time.

Photo by Giles Keyte/Courtesy of Focus Features.

Tags: Anne Hathaway, David Nicholls, Focus Features, James Franco, Jim Sturgess, Liesl Schillinger, Lone Scherfig, One Day, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Gethers, Random House Films, The New York Times