The film, using Frank Cottrell Boyce's adaptation of Lomax's story, will be directed by Burning Man's Jonathan Teplitzky and is due to begin filming very soon, on location in Thailand, Scotland and Australia. Regardless of how successful they are, Firth always seems to emerge triumphant (or unscathed). War Horse star Jeremy Irvine will play the young Lomax in the war scenes. All our thoughts today are with his family. Nicole will play Lomax's second wife Patti, who helps him to confront his fears and hatred by writing to the former Japanese officer he holds responsible and helping him to forgive. Andy Paterson, the producer of the new film, said: 'The cast and crew of The Railway Man are deeply saddened to hear of Eric Lomaxs death. Years after the fighting is over, the former prisoner of war is still struggling to cope with the psychological damage caused. The film tells the true story of a second lieutenant in the Royal Corp of Signals, who was captured by Japanese forces in World War II and sent to a prison camp in Thailand, where he suffered torture at the hands of his captors. Rachel was all set to play the wife of World War II officer Eric Lomax in the real life drama, but she is currently filming The Bourne Legacy and Oz: The Great And Powerful, and has to help promote her new film The Deep Blue Sea in the US this month, so has been forced to pull out.Ĭolin and producer Andy Paterson have personally persuaded Nicole to step in to the role, The Daily Mail reports. On an afternoon in 1983, Eric Lomax (Colin Firth), a quiet, middle-aged radio and railway enthusiast meets bubbly Patti (Nicole Kidman) on a Scottish train. Nicole Kidman is to take the place of Rachel Weisz playing Colin Firth's wife in new film The Railway Man. So far, 75 of the 185 sections of pre-cast concrete that make up the 109m-long structure, which will protect trains from falling debris have been lifted into place. Stars from The Railway Man Jeremy Irvine, second left, with Colin Firth, second right, and Tanroh Ishida, far left and Hiroyuki Sonada pose in front of a steam train at Hualamphong train.
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