Four Letters of Love

Status : Post-Production

Release date set for Spring, 2025

Update from IFTN (Irish Film and Television Network), September 9, 2024:

Vertigo Releasing has acquired Polly Steele’s Four Letters of Love, starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne. Fionn O’Shea and Ann Skelly are also among the cast.

The film is a Genesius Pictures, AX1 Films and Port Pictures production in association with London Town Films. It is produced by BAFTA Award nominee Debbie Gray and Douglas Cummins and Irish producer Martina Niland. With funding from Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, with the support of WRAP, and Northern Ireland Screen.

The film is described as “a life-affirming tale about faith and doubt, maybes and almosts, and the miracle of love.”

Directed by Polly Steele
Written by Niall Williams, based on his book of the same name

Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, Fionn O’Shea, Olwen Fouéré, Ann Skelly, Pat Shortt

Produced by Genesius Pictures and AX1 Films
Distributed by Cornerstone Films and Vertigo Films

**Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Helena Bonham Carter, and Pierce Brosnan**

Synopsis

Based on Niall Williams’ best-selling novel. Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart.

Announcement

From Deadline:

Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne are set to co-star in Polly Steele’s upcoming drama Four Letters Of Love as the parents of fated lovers played by up-and-coming actors Fionn O’Shea and Ann Skelly.

Cornerstone, which is handling worldwide sales and distribution, will launch the film at the Berlinale’s European Film Market next month. The Reset Collective will handle the release in Australia and New Zealand.

The film is based on Niall Williams’s international bestselling novel and is described as a lyrical and deeply romantic Irish story. . .

O’Shea and Skelly play two youngsters who are meant to be together but may never connect, unless fate plays its part.

Brosnan is the young man’s father. He has quit his job, following divine instruction, to focus on painting, leaving his dependent wife and son to fend for themselves.

Byrne and Bonham Carter play the young woman’s parents. Byrne’s character is a poet and schoolmaster, while Bonham Carter is an intuitive mother, coping with the sudden paralysis of her son, the girl’s younger brother.