Focus Features to Distribute Director Joe Wright's 'Anna Karenina'

Jason Kempin/Getty Images Focus Features will distribute the Joe Wright-directed adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic Anna Karenina within the U . s . States within the other half of 2012. Universal Pictures Worldwide will distribute the film worldwide. Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Manley,Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen and Emily Watson star within the adaptation written byTom Stoppard (Shakespeare for each other). Filming starts within the U.K. and Russia this month. Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are creating with Paul Webster. "Joe Wright is really a master filmmaker, with Tom Stoppard's brilliant script thisAnna Kareninawill be filled with both pageantry and emotion," stated Focus Features Boss James Schamus. "To understand Joe's vision, we now have an ideal creating partners in Working Title and Paul Webster, whose acumen is unparalleled. With Keira Knightley playing this legendary role along with a splendid cast supporting her, present day moviegoers is going to be attracted for this effective story." Wright formerly made Pride & Prejudice and Atonement with Focus and dealing Title. Working Title has Mess, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Contraband Senna Johnny British Reborn and Everyone Loves Whales forthcoming.Focus most lately launched Your Debt and something Day. Jude Law Keira Knightley Joe Wright