Max Irons, Sam Claflin, Douglas Booth and Robert Pattinson in Talks for POSH Film Adaptation?

According to the Daily Mail, Max Irons, Sam Claflin, Douglas Booth and Robert Pattinson are in negotiations to appear in the film version of Laura Wade's play Posh for Blueprint Pictures. The film is directed by Lone Scherfig (An Education).

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The Royal Court's summer 2012 West End-transfer production of Posh was described as, "In an oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody good wine. But this isn't just a jolly: they're planning a revolution. Welcome to the Riot Club."

Irons (The Host) is being considered for the lead role. Claflin will next appear in part two of the Hunger Games franchise, Catching Fire. Booth's credits include BBC's version of Great Expectations and the upcoming Romeo and Juliet. Pattinson will finish filming for Outback in Australia next week.

Laura Wade is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme. Her first play for the Royal Court, Breathing Corpses, played in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in 2005 and won her the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Pearson Playwrights Best Play Award, the George Devine Award and an Olivier Award Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Her other recent work includes the Australian Chamber Orchestra's Kreutzer vs Kreutzer(Sydney Opera House and Australian national tour) and Alice, a new adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield) with Lyndsey Turner.

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