Adam Brody and Laura Carmichael to Star in ‘A Night at Claridge’s’ as Whit Stillman Sets Big Screen Return

Adam Brody and Laura Carmichael to Star in ‘A Night at Claridge’s’ as Whit Stillman Sets Big Screen Return

Adam Brody and Laura Carmichael will star in the WWII-set mystery romance A Night At Claridge's, Whit Stillmans' first film since Love & Friendship

Downton Abbey's Laura Carmichael lands next lead movie role in '40s-set mystery romance

Downton Abbey star Laura Carmichael has been cast as the lead in a new period drama alongside Adam Brody.

Whit Stillman Plans Return with Adam Brody-Led A Night at Claridge’s; Sebastian Stan and Ana de Armas to Lead Felipe Gálvez’s Impunity

We average about one Whit Stillman movie every ten years, which makes the path from 2016’s Love & Friendship to today’s news right on the money. Variety reports that Adam Brody (of the aforementioned, plus Stillman’s Amazon pilot The Cosmopolitans) and Laura Carmichael will lead A Night at Claridge’s, which adapts Patrick Hamilton’s 1947 novel The Slaves of Solitude. Hamilton, it should be noted, originated the material for George Cukor’s Gaslig…

Whit Stillman Set to Direct ‘A Night at Claridge’s’ Starring Laura Carmichael and Adam Brody, His First Film in Over a Decade

Some great news: Whit Stillman is returning to filmmaking after more than a decade off.According to Variety, Stillman is set to direct “A Night at Claridge’s,” his first feature since 2016’s “Love & Friendship.” The film reunites him with Adam Brody and also stars Laura Carmichael in the lead, alongside Tom Bennett and Susan Hampshire.Adapted from Patrick Hamilton’s novel “The Slaves of Solitude,” the film will be new territory for Stillman, kno…