Film and TV (with the odd game here and there) may be our main area of expertise here at Empire, but that hasn’t stopped us from getting in the World Book Day spirit… and it hasn’t stopped Daisy Edgar-Jones, either. Per Variety‘s reporting, the serial page-to-screen star (see also: Normal People, On Swift Horses, Where The Crawdads Sing, Under The Banner Of Heaven…) is set to lead Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, Oscar winning CODA filmmaker Siân Heder’s upcoming adaptation of Gabrielle Zevin’s best-selling romance novel.
Directed and written by Heder based on previous drafts from Mark Bomback and author Zevin herself, Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow follows in the footsteps of romances like One Day, The Time Traveler’s Wife, and the aforementioned Normal People in its love-across-the-years format. What’s the wrinkle, then? Well, instead of once-a-year check-ins, time traveling shenanigans, or a coming of age yarn spun from a coastal Irish town, Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow is all about love in the burgeoning digital age of the turn of the 21st century. Per the book’s official synopsis, “‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ is a modern love story about two friends who meet as children and reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital storytelling that eludes them in their real lives. The relationship explores the intimacy, passion and heartbreak of creative collaboration, set against the visually groundbreaking worlds brought to life by the rising video game industry of the 1990s-2000s.” Edgar-Jones will play gifted game designer Sadie Green, one half of T&T&T‘s love affair; the role of her co-collaborator/BFF/beau Sam Masur — and his pal/their roomie Marx Watanabe — is yet to be cast.
Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow is just the latest addition to an increasingly busy ‘upcoming’ IMDB slate for Edgar-Jones. The Normal People breakout also has Georgia Oakley’s new Sense & Sensibility, Denzel Washington and Robert Pattinson co-starring Netflix heist joint Here Comes The Flood, and Fair Play director Chloe Domont’s Andrew Scott and Michelle Williams featuring thriller A Place In Hell on her horizon. We don’t know when this exciting latest project will hit our screens just yet, but we’ll keep checking for updates on Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, well, tomorrow… and tomorrow… and tomorrow. Watch this space!
