Brendan Gleeson is to star opposite Claire Foy in a big-screen adaptation of Helen Macdonald's bestselling memoir H is for Hawk.
US entertainment trade publication Deadline reports that The Crown director Philippa Lowthorpe will direct a screenplay from Irish author Emma Donoghue.
In H is for Hawk, Helen (Foy) is grieving the death of her father (Gleeson) when a friendship with a hawk called Mabel turns her life around.
The Crown's Foy can currently be seen in Irish cinemas in the Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal-starring All of Us Strangers.
The music documentary Brendan Gleeson's Farewell to Hughes's is part of the line-up for this year's Dublin International Film Festival, which runs from 22 February to 2 March. For more, see diff.ie.
