Paul Kingsnorths shadow language novel attracts actor-director with vivid portrayal of Norman invasion
Actor Mark Rylance has optioned the film rights to Paul Kingsnorths Booker-longlisted The Wake, in the latest coup for a crowd-funded novel which was once thought to be unpublishable.
Rylance was one of the original 400 subscribers whose pledges enabled the novel to be published by Unbound after it was rejected by traditional publishers. He will play the central character, Buccmaster Of Holland, in the film to be made by Shakespeare Road, the company he founded with his wife Claire van Campen.
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