Rocky Mountain Haigh

I don't know how much faith we should have in this rumor since they got the description of the book all wrong, but it's being reported (via, thx Mac) that All of Us Strangers and Weekend director Andrew Haigh will next be adapting Brooklyn writer Colm Tóibín's still-to-be-published book A Long Winter to film. The problem is that report linked above comes with a plot description of a totally different book of Tóibín's from 1990 called The South, which is about a woman in the 1950s falling in love with a painter in Spain. A Long Winter on the other hand, well it's also set in Spain but it's about something else entirely:

"One snowy morning, after arguing with her husband, Miquel's mother walks out of their home high up in the Pyrenees and does not return. With his younger brother stationed far away on military service and his father cast out by the people of the town, Miquel and his father are left to fend for themselves. Together they will be forced to battle the elements, and their resentment of each other, through the long winter. Miquel's desperate searching for his mother is only interrupted when Manolo, an orphaned servant boy from the next village, arrives to help out in the house. As Miquel is forced to confront the reality of his mother's absence, Manolo, with his silences and longing gaze, offers the promise of new love, and another kind of life."

So, gay! Andrew Haigh making a gay movie -- that sits better with me. I mean I don't want to pigeonhole him in his work, but when we've got a filmmaker with his enormous gifts making truly exquisite gay films like All of Us Strangers I kinda wanna keep him with us for as long as possible. I think you'll understand. But our man also made 45 Years and Lean On Pete and they're both masterpieces even if they're heterosexual, so we'll truly take whatever he sees fit to give us. My dude hasn't faltered yet.