Variety reports that Chastain’s production company Freckle Films will produce the film will be based on Dinitia Smith’s 2016 historical drama The Honeymoon: A Novel of George Eliot.
Actress Jessica Chastain was signed on to develop The Honeymoon into a feature film.
The book recounts Eliot’s honeymoon in Venice in June 1880, after her marriage to a much younger man named John Walter Cross.
The Oscar-nominated Chastain first launched Freckle Films in 2016.