Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre will follow up her critically acclaimed feature debut with an adaptation of a literary classic. The “The Mustang” writer-director is in “active negotiations” to helm “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” for 3000 Pictures, Variety reports.
Published in 1928, the D.H. Lawrence novel tells the story of Lady Chatterley, a wealthy and privileged woman who falls out of love with her husband and finds herself irresistibly drawn to a gamekeeper on their English estate.
“The Mustang” made its world premiere at Sundance 2019. The drama centers on a convict who participates in a rehabilitation therapy program that sees him training wild mustangs. “I had a lot of female support behind the camera,” De Clermont-Tonnerre told us. “Having female crew members was very important to me. Throughout the long journey of making this film over five years, I’ve been around women who never gave up and always believed in this project. All those women were a great force behind this project.”
De Clermont-Tonnerre’s small screen credits include “Mrs. America” and “The Act.”
