Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgard are currently in talks to star in The Aftermath, a drama set post-World War II.
Fox Searchlight will release the adaptation of the Rhidian Brook novel, and Ridley Scott will produce the film under his Scott-Free production banner.
The Aftermath takes place in Hamburg, Germany after the events of the second world war.
Skarsgard will play a British Colonel who is charged with rebuilding the city. While in Hamburg, the Colonel decides that he and his wife will share their new home with its previous tenants, a widower and his emotionally troubled daughter.