Vanessa Kirby to reunite with THE CROWN director Benjamin Caron in adapted drama THE NIGHT ALWAYS COMES

Vanessa Kirby is getting together with The crown director Beniamino Caron (Andor) in the feature film The night always comesbased on the 2021 novel by Willy Vlautin which follows a working-class woman in the Pacific Northwest who embarks on a 24-hour quest to collect old debts and raise enough money to keep a roof over her head.

The night always comes the film is based on a screenplay by the Seattle screenwriter Sara Conradwhose credits include The instinct of mothers AND 50 states of fear. Vlautin’s 2010 book Lean on Pete was adapted and directed by Andrew Haigh (All of us strangers) in 2017. His debut book, Motel life, was filmed in 2012.

Vlautin’s story focuses on Lynette (Kirby), who gets up before dawn every morning to juggle several jobs – not all at the same level – while also caring for her mother Doreen and older brother Kenny, who is described in the book as developmentally disabled. Lynette has been hardened by her difficult life; her bedroom houses the washer dryer, an oil furnace and a sink. There is little or no money for new clothes or treats.

Lynette went without so she could save money to buy the ramshackle house her family has rented for decades in an area where the “G” word – gentrification – has left a bad taste in her mouth; the working classes are expelled from the city. A plan was hatched to take out a mortgage on her property, but when that fails she is forced to embark on a desperate odyssey into a city of greed. Lynette has to deal with dangerous people who owe her money.

This new film project from Vlautin will be shot on location in Portland, Oregon, in May, before Kirby films her role as Sue Storm, aka Invisible Woman, in Fantastic Four restart to be directed by Matt Shakman by the end of the summer.

via: Deadline