First Look: Rowan Joffé’s Adaptation Of Graham Greene’s ‘Brighton Rock’

Here’s your first look at Rowan Joffé’s directorial debut in his adaptation of Graham Greene’s underworld thriller “Brighton Rock.”

The film — which relocates the setting to the swingin’ ’60s — follows of the story of Pinkie, an up-and-coming and evidently scarred gangster who marries a naive waitress after she stumbles onto evidence linking him to a murder.

Rising thespians Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough star as the aforementioned couple while Helen Mirren and John Hurt (who replaced Pete Postelthwaite during production) play an older couple trying to save Riseborough’s character from her marriage. Interestingly, this is the film Carey Mulligan was forced to drop in favor of Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” sequel.

Joffé adapted the novel for the screen having previously made a name for himself penning such films as Danny Boyle’s “28 Weeks Later” and Anton Corbijn’s upcoming “The American” starring George Clooney, which he adapted from Martin Booth’s “A Very Private Gentleman.”

The film will premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. [TIFF]