The Light Between Oceans
The Light Between Oceans is a 2016 romantic drama film written and directed by Derek Cianfrance and based on the 2012 novel of the same name by M. L. Stedman. An international co-production between the United Kingdom, the United States, India and Canada, the film stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Bryan Brown, and Jack Thompson. The film tells the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who rescue an infant girl adrift at sea and raise her as their own. Years later, the couple discover the child's true parentage and are faced with the consequences of their actions.
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| Language | English
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- While filming Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander's romance on-screen went off-screen. Some of the films key scenes were shot in Port Chalmers just outside Dunedin. The bulk of the film is set at a Lighthouse at Cape Campbell in Marlborough, New Zealand. The cast and crew lived there for 5 and a half weeks.
- In the novel, Tom is 28 years old and Isabel is 19 years old. Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander were 37 and 25 years old respectively when the film was shot.
- Both lead actors, Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, previously played artificial-intelligence characters in Prometheus (2012) and Ex Machina (2015), respectively.
- The book and the movie's plot are very similar to a screenplay of a film titled "The Rootcutter" (retitled A Tale of Two Humans years later) written by Joseph Nobile a decade before the book The Light Between Oceans was published. Nobile's script is about a couple living on a remote Irish island who had three stillborns and are about to give up hope when the husband finds a boat adrift with a crying baby and a dead adult. After bringing the baby home and debating whether to tell the authorities, they agree to raise the baby as their own with eventual tragic results. Nobile's film is in development.
- Five people portrayed the character Lucy/Grace: twins Elliot Newbery and Evangeline Newbery as a baby; Georgie Gascoigne as a one-year-old; Florence Clery as a four-year-old and Caren Pistorius as an adult.
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