PAN Director Joe Wright In Talks To Direct Anne Hathaway in THE LIFEBOAT

After Les Miserables, Anne Hathaway took some time off for a little while to get out of the public eye, but starring in Chris Nolan's Interstellar last year put her right back in the thick of things. She has the awful-looking The Intern coming up opposite Robert De Niro, but Colossal sounds like it could be brilliant (if it's able to win it's current legal battle), and the latest project she's attached to also sounds excellent. Deadline reports that Pan, Atonement, and Hanna director Joe Wright is in talks to direct Hathaway in The Lifeboat, which is based on Charlotte Rogan's book of the same name. Here's the synopsis:

Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.

In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying Grace and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize has exceeded capacity. For any to live, some must die.

As the castaways battle the elements and each other, Grace recollects the unorthodox way she and Henry met, and the new life of privilege she thought she'd found. Will she pay any price to keep it?

THE LIFEBOAT is a page-turning novel of hard choices and survival, narrated by a woman as unforgettable and complex as the events she describes.

Aside from the fact that they'll have to age the character up slightly, this sounds like a really solid concept to me. Cast Away writer William Broyles Jr. is writing the screenplay, and this could be a cool opportunity for Wright to tell a story on a smaller scale that still allows for some creative challenges during the production. I can already imagine him planning out where his trademarked long continuous shot is going to go. Hathaway sounds like a great fit as well, so I'm excited about this one. What do you think?