The Light Between Oceans (Michael Fassbender / Alicia Vikander)

[MifuneFan]

Last year I read the novel The Light Between Oceans, and I thought it was great. I felt it would work well as a film, and I was happy to learn that Dreamworks picked up the movie rights, and even happier to find out that the casting is amazing, with Michael Fassbender, and Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) as the leads. It's being directed by Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine). Definitely looking forward to this one next year.

THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS - OFFICIAL TRAILER [HD] - YouTube

The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg’s Dreamworks that is “irresistible…seductive…with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a “gift from God,” and against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them. -

See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Th....Fjdsr97T.dpuf

[spectre08]

Question for you, as you have read the book, does it spend more time focusing on their time together on the island or their time after they return to the mainland with the baby?

[jacobsever]

Wait, is this not coming out until 2016 now? I've been wanting to see this movie since early Spring.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by spectre08

Question for you, as you have read the book, does it spend more time focusing on their time together on the island or their time after they return to the mainland with the baby?

I'd say a good 80-90% or so takes place on the island. It's very much just Tom, Isabel and the baby for most of the story.

[AaronJ]

Wow. I'm all in for anything with Fassbender, Vikander, and directed by Cianfrance. I'm very excited for this.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

Wait, is this not coming out until 2016 now? I've been wanting to see this movie since early Spring.

Considering there's just 10 days left in 2015, I'd say yes . It might not come out until late 2016, if not early 2017. The only release date available is for the UK, and it's January 6th, 2017.

[jacobsever]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Considering there's just 10 days left in 2015, I'd say yes . It might not come out until late 2016, if not early 2017. The only release date available is for the UK, and it's January 6th, 2017.

Geez Louise. I forgot how I even heard about it, but it's been on my watchlist on Letterboxd for at least 6 months now. Had no idea the release date was so far away.

[spectre08]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

I'd say a good 80-90% or so takes place on the island. It's very much just Tom, Isabel and the baby for most of the story.

oh good. the description made it seem like the story was that of when they returned to the mainland, with their time on the island as more of a prologue.

[Dispatch Ninja]

I saw this thread and thought the trailer dropped

[the reynholm]

THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS - OFFICIAL TRAILER [HD] - YouTube

[Foggy]

Liking it before I see the trailer cause I know it's gonna be good.

[wonkavision]

Looking forwards to this! IMDB states September release here in the US.

[MifuneFan]

Wow, visually it looks very close to how I imagined it. Can't wait

[The Debts]

I'll give this a go if I get the chance. I'm pretty much game for anything Fassbender is in and Vikander is a very lovely performer.

[Pounder]

Looks like a Lifetime Channel movie with a higher budget.

[spanky87]

The cast is great and all but this doesn't look very Cianfrance-y. Seems very mundane compared to his last two films.

[Ultra_Violence]

Originally Posted by spanky87

The cast is great and all but this doesn't look very Cianfrance-y. Seems very mundane compared to his last two films.

I agree and I didn't even enjoy Blue Valentine as much as I did The Place Beyond the Pines. I'll still check it out though.

[Darth Marcus]

New Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w51IR_BFGyc

[Leonidas King]

I smell another Vikander nomination with this one.

[Himmel]