‘Sport of Thrones’ Star Emilia Clarke to Play Irish Writer and Oscar Wilde’s Spouse, Constance Llyod, in Sophie Hyde’s Subsequent Challenge

Emilia Clarke is about to star as Constance Lloyd, an Irish writer who was married to Oscar Wilde, in “The Ideally suited Spouse,” directed by “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” helmer Sophie Hyde.

The mission, for which plot particulars are nonetheless being saved below wraps, is repped by Embankment Movies (“The Father,” “The Son”) and will probably be shopped at this week’s American Movie Market, which kicks off on Tuesday.

“The Ideally suited Spouse” will make clear Lloyd, who was an writer and feminist activist who took half within the costume reform motion, which campaigned to permit girls to decorate in comfy clothes slightly than the stifling Victorian clothes of the period. Lloyd married Wilde in 1884 and the couple had two sons. Nevertheless, after Wilde obtained a two-year jail time period for homosexuality, which was nonetheless unlawful on the time (it might solely be decriminalized in England and Wales in 1967), Lloyd moved to Switzerland with their youngsters, and distanced them from the author.

“The Ideally suited Spouse” will mark Hyde’s follow-up to “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” which starred Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack and just about premiered at Sundance and screened on the Berlinale. The pic was launched domestically by Searchlight. Hyde’s function debut, “52 Tuesdays,” gained finest director at Sundance and garnered a Crystal Bear prize at Berlin. Her sophomore outing, “Animals,” additionally performed at Sundance and gained finest debut screenplay on the British Impartial Movie Awards.  

“The Ideally suited Spouse” is being produced by Olivier Delbosc at Paris-based Curiosa Movies (“Stars at Midday”), Chris Curling (“Falling”) at Zephyr Movies within the U.Okay. and Matthew Gledhill (“Madame”) at Wheelhouse Productions.

Clarke’s upcoming tasks embody “McCarthy,” Václav Marhoul’s movie in regards to the disgraced American senator Joseph McCarthy, by which she’s going to star reverse Michael Shannon.

Embankment Movies’ slate additionally consists of Pam MacKinnon’s “Clybourne Park,” starring Sarah Paulson, Anthony Mackie and Martin Freeman; Frances O’Connor’s “Emily,” starring Emma Mackey as the author Emily Brontë; and Florian Zeller’s “The Son” starring Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby.