09/09/2003 - Spouses Emily Watson - Tom Wilkinson are torn apart by the arrival of Rupert Everett in the directorial debut for the Oscar winning screenwriter, Julian Fellowes. Shooting on A Way Through The Woods started yesterday

Julian Fellowes,, the 2002 Oscar-winner for Robert Altman’s Gosford Park in the Best original screenplay category, started shooting his first feature film as a director and writer yesterday. A Way Through The Woods tells the story of an apparently perfect marriage between Anne (Emily Watson) and James (Tom Wilkinson), which hits the rocks with the arrival of Bill (Rupert Everett). Joining the cast and crew is Howard’s End’s cinematographer, Tony Pierce-Roberts and Chris Munro, who won an Oscar for his work on the sound of Black Hawk Down.

The film is produced by Steve Clark-Hall for Celador Films, the film division of Celador Communications, the company behind the successful TV game franchise, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.
A Way Through The Woods is Celador Films’ second feature film production since its creation in 1999, after Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things, which opened the London Film Festival last year.
Julian Fellowes has two other scripts in production and pre-production: Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair, co-written with Matthew Faulk, and John Mackay’s Piccadilly Jim starring Sam Rockwell and Tom Wilkinson, which will start filming this autumn.