By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 20, 2020 12:00 pm EST
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For those who may not be familiar with the book, here’s the official synopsis
Joining Harry Styles in the movie, which may not go by the title My Policeman, will be Lily James (Baby Driver, Cinderella) as Tom’s wife Marion. The role of Patrick has not been cast yet. However, there might be the need for multiple actors to play the roles of Tom, Marion, and Patrick, because the movie will be told through a narrative that flashes back from when the characters are elderly in the 1990s. Patrick, now an invalid man, is taken in by Tom and Marion, and the two begin to revisit the love triangle that shook all of their relationships 40 years earlier, when homosexuality was illegal.
It is in 1950s’ Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten—determined her love will be enough for them both. A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world. Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed.
