The Works International has boarded Nick Broomfield’s Congo-set love story The Catastrophist, which has new cast including Dan Stevens from hit UK TV series Downton Abbey, Frieda Pinto and singer/actor K’naan (Cosmopolis).

Filming is due to start in Tanzania in February 2013.

Broomfield and Marc Hoeferlin wrote the script, which is based on Ronan Bennett’s 1960, Belgian Congo-set novel about the love affair between a jaded writer and a young idealistic journalist who are forced to take sides when a violent civil war breaks out.

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About making his Broadway debut, Stevens says “I couldn’t ask for a more exciting Broadway debut: to work on such a fascinating play, with such fantastic actors as Jessica Chastain and David Strathairn and one of Broadway’s great directors, Moisés Kaufman. I can’t wait to get started.”

The Heiress will be produced by Paula Wagner, Roy Furman and Stephanie P. McClelland. Dan Stevens is currently shooting season three of “Downton Abbey,” the Golden Globe-winning series written by Julian Fellowes, reprising the leading role of “Matthew Crawley.” On stage, Dan’s credits include the lead role of “Septimus Hodge” in David Leveaux’s hit West End production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, and the “Doctor” in Tom Stoppard and André Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at The National Theatre. He has worked frequently with Sir Peter Hall on productions including The Vortex (West End), Hay Fever (Haymarket Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It, which wowed audiences in London, New York and Los Angeles, and earned him an Ian Charleson Award nomination which is the British theatrical award to reward the best classical stage performances in Britain by actors aged under 30. Forthcoming feature films include British independent Summer in February in which he stars alongside Dominic Cooper and Emily Browning and which he also executive-produced and Amy Heckerling’s Vamps with Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter and Sigourney Weaver (due out in Autumn 2012).

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CONGRATULATIONS DAN!!!

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Rumours of a movie based on the hit period drama, in which Coyle plays valet Mr. Bates, have recently circulated.

“If it’s a great, great script, [I'd do it],” said Coyle during a recent press call for his new Sky1 drama Starlings. “You’d have to regard it on its own merit at the time. It’s a good idea. [Julian Fellowes] is a terrific writer, so it would have to be something, I imagine, completely removed from the series.”

Coyle admitted that he has no clue what has led Downton to become a “cultural phenomenon”.

“I don’t know what tipped it over,” he said. “Nobody does. There’s always theories that in times of austerity we look to nostalgia for comfort. There’s all those social theories. There’s [also] something about the open-ended, rolling nature of the story lines. You don’t know what is going to happen, it’s not finite in the same way a classic novel is, so… you get engaged in it in a different way.”

Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville (Robert Crawley) has dismissed speculation that a film version is currently in the works.

“Julian Fellowes was at the Golden Globes and was… in conversation with people who work in films,” he explained. “But to deduce from that that there is going to be a movie is a step too far. We’ll have to do series three first and see what happens.”

Coyle will next be seen in Sky1′s Starlings which begins on Sunday (May 13) at 8pm.

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The festival takes play July 12th – 15th near Sothwold in Suffolk.

In the Literary Arena, WordTheatre® present contemporary short stories brought to life by a the likes of Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens, Bond Girl Gemma Arterton, Diana Vickers fresh from the West End, Game of Thrones actor Gethin Anthony, The Awakening’s Lucy Cohu and Emma Rigby from Brit soap Hollyoaks.

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