Italian Shoes Movie Updates

Wed., Oct. 19, 2011

from Variety

Yellow Bird Steps Out with 'Italian Shoes'

Swedish shingle Yellow Bird is in development with Andy Harries' Left Bank Pictures to make a feature pic of Henning Mankell's Italian Shoes, set to be helmed by Kenneth Branagh.

• added a synopsis

• On an isolated island, an elderly former surgeon is reunited with an old flame whom he had abandoned many years ago. When he discovers she is dying of cancer, she asks him to fulfill a promise that he made to more than 30 years ago -- to take her to ... show all a pool in the middle of the northern forests where he had spent a day with his father when he was young.

• added Andy Harries to the credits
• added Richard Cottan to the credits
• added Kenneth Branagh to the credits
• added Marianne Gray to the credits
• added Left Bank Pictures as a production company
• added Yellow Bird Films as a production company
• changed the production status to Announced
• created the movie profile