"Ian is someone who writes women incredibly skillfully," notes Ronan. Saoirse Ronan, who stars alongside Billy Howle, was thrilled to reunite with McEwan after having helped bring his novel Atonement to the screen a decade before. "He is so specific about character and place," Cooke explained. Director Dominic Cooke was so impressed with McEwan's adaptation that there was very little to do before filming. Traditionally McEwan has left the job of adaptation to others, joking, "In the time it takes me to write two screenplays that do not get made, I could have written two new novels." But the elegant way the book tells how an eventful wedding night in 1962 utterly changed the destinies of a newly married couple seem to translate perfectly into a screenplay. Even before the novel hit bookstores, film companies were interested in turning this story into a movie. After writing his novel On Chesil Beach in 2007, Ian McEwan did something he rarely does-he wrote the screenplay.
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