Adam Brody to film new wartime drama in Limerick with Downton Abbey star

Oscar-nominated director Whit Stillman will reunite with Adam Brody for the feature, which will film across Limerick

Adam Brody, who played Seth Cohen in The OC and recently starred in Netflix's Nobody Wants This. Picture: Netflix

Adam Brody is due to film a wartime drama in Limerick this autumn, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Whit Stillman.

Brody, who played Seth Cohen in The OC and recently starred in Netflix's Nobody Wants This, will lead the cast of A Night at Claridge’s alongside Laura Carmichael, who played Lady Edith Crawley in Downton Abbey.

Filming is due to take place across Limerick, with Stillman directing the feature.

The film will reunite Stillman with Brody following their collaborations on Damsels in Distress and The Cosmopolitans.

Stillman also directed Love & Friendship, The Last Days of Disco and Metropolitan.

A Night at Claridge’s is being produced by Nathalie Lichtenthaeler of Wide Eye Films, whose recent production Once Upon a Time in a Cinema was filmed in Limerick and released earlier this year.

Wartime drama

The film is adapted from Patrick Hamilton’s screenplay The Slaves of Solitude and is set in London in autumn 1943, during the build-up to D-Day when American troops were arriving in large numbers.

It will centre on Carmichael's character, Miss Roach, who leaves Blitz-torn London for a boarding house, where she becomes caught between Brody's charming American officer and the jealousy of a rival.

Ms Lichtenthaeler said she was thrilled to be returning to Limerick to film.

“Our experience shooting Once Upon a Time in a Cinema here was so positive that we resolved to return as soon as we could,” she said.

“That we were able to secure a project of this scale, with this cast, led by a filmmaker of Whit Stillman's acclaim, is a real testament to all the region has to offer, not least the growth in skilled, available professionals on both sides of the camera.”

‘A significant moment’

Regional film manager at Film in Limerick Paul C Ryan said securing the production was “a significant moment” for the region.

“Whit Stillman is a filmmaker with an extraordinary body of work, and the opportunity to welcome him and this talented cast to Limerick is a strong endorsement of the region as a production destination,” he said.

He said the return of Ms Lichtenthaeler and Wide Eye Films to Limerick was “especially significant”.

“Repeat productions and returning producers are an important indicator of the strength of Limerick's offering, and this is another step in establishing long-term relationships with the international production community,” Mr Ryan said.