DreamWorks switches on The Light Between Oceans

DreamWorks Studios have announced that American director Derek Cianfrance will direct their adaptation of M.L. Stedman’s international best-seller The Light Between Oceans. Cianfrance is probably best known for his work on Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines, both of which starred Ryan Gosling.

Stedman’s novel is set on a remote Australian island just after the end of the First World War, and centres on demobbed lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and his new wife, whose seemingly idyllic and isolated paradise on Janus Rock is shattered by their inability to have children. Their lives change forever when one night a shipwrecked boat is washed up with a newborn baby and the body of a man on board.