Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen and Susan Sarandon have joined Colin Firth in a colonial drama
The Colossus, according to Variety.
The movie is set in South Africa at the turn of the 20th century, to be directed by Sean Mathias. Production is expected to begin this fall.
Based on Ann Harries' novel "Manly Pursuits." A fictionalized version of real events, story concerns an ornithologist hired to transport English songbirds to the recently deposed South African prime minister. He falls in love with a firebrand political activist and becomes entangled in a plot to stop the imminent Boer War.