Rose Leslie and Theo James to Star in ‘Time Traveler’s Wife’ for HBO

The casting delivers Leslie back again to the cabler subsequent her turn in ‘Game of Thrones.’

HBO’s acquire on The Time Traveler’s Wife is coming into target.

The premium cabler has tapped Game of Thrones preferred Rose Leslie and Theo James (Divergent) to star in the adaptation from Steven Moffat.

Picked up to sequence in mid-2018, the drama — currently in preproduction — is primarily based on Audrey Niffenegger’s novel The Time Traveler’s Wife and described as an intricate and magical enjoy story that tells the story of Clare (Leslie) and Henry (James), and a marriage with a dilemma…time vacation.

Here’s how HBO describes Claire: fiery, intelligent and unstoppable — and for most of her life she’s experienced an incredible magic formula. Due to the fact she was 6, she has experienced an imaginary good friend: a type and funny man, at times aged, often young, who seems in the woods powering her home and tells her tales of the long term. Visits from the mysterious Henry are the dazzling spots in the tedium of her childhood. As the decades go, and she grows into a wonderful younger female, she commences to notice her buddy is not imaginary — he’s a time traveler, traveling to from the long run. And he’s not just from any outdated long term — he’s from her future. Clare has a literal date with future. Just one day she’s going to satisfy a younger man called Henry DeTamble — whom she’ll know really very well but who will not figure out her at all — and she will develop into the time traveler’s wife.

James’ Henry DeTamble has been a time traveler considering the fact that he was 8. It’s not a superpower, it is a problem — he can’t aid it. Occasionally, when Henry is stressed or nervous — and from time to time for no rationale at all — he loses his grip on the recent moment and falls bare into the past or the potential. One particular minute he’s earning breakfast, the future he’s bare at a hoedown in 1973. He can be caught there for minutes or months, he hardly ever understands. His daily life is a roller coaster of consistent danger and white-knuckle survival. Until eventually a single working day he satisfies a beautiful redhead in the library where he works. Her name is Clare Abshire and although he’s under no circumstances observed her in advance of, she claims to have recognised him all her daily life. Lastly, his curse has provided him one thing good — and Clare and Henry are about to have the time of their life.

The drama, which landed at the high quality cabler right after a a number of-outlet bidding war, is being tailored by Moffat (Sherlock, Medical doctor Who). Moffat will pen the script and exec generate together with Sue Vertue and Brian Minchin. The collection hails from Warner Bros. Television and Hartswood Films, the latter serving as the output enterprise jointly operate by Moffat and his Television set-making wife, Vertue.

The Time Traveler’s Wife was previously tailored for the huge screen in 2009 with stars Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, and directed by Robert Schwentke. New Line, a division of Warner Bros., created the launch and managed legal rights to the assets. The big-screen Time Traveler’s Spouse grossed a lot more than $100 million around the globe on a finances of $39 million.

In addition to Activity of Thrones, Leslie’s credits contain Paramount+’s The Excellent Battle. She’s repped by Hamilton Hodell in the U.K., UTA and Peikoff Mahan. James’ credits include things like the Divergent franchise, How It Finishes, Castlevania and Golden Boy. He’s repped by UTA, the U.K.’s Markham Froggatt and Sloane Give.