Jack O’Connell Joining Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Jack O’Connell is set to join the cast for Sony’s 3000 Pictures and Netflix adaptation of D. H. Lawrence‘s Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

O’Connell will be joining The Crown‘s Emma Corrin who is set to play Lady Chatterley, in this female-focused re-telling of a classic.

If you don’t know the story, we follow the life of Lady Chatterley, a woman born to a life of wealth and privilege. She soon finds herself married to man she doesn’t truly to only engages in a affair with a gamekeeper on their English estate. Rediscovering desire and intimacy more than she thought possible. Eventually she breaks from all traditions of the day and seeking happiness with the man she loves.

O’Connell has recently wrapped filming the BBC’s SAS: Rogue Heroes, a six-part drama based on Ben Macintyre’s book of the same name which charts the formation of the renowned Special Forces unit. Most recently he was seen in Andrew Haigh’s five-part AMC/BBC thriller The North Water, portraying a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as ship’s doctor on an ill-fated whaling expedition to the Arctic in the late 1850s. Among other much-admired television roles, O’Connell has also made a name for himself on the silver screen by starring in acclaimed films such as: Money Monster, Unbroken, Little Fish and Starred Up.

O’Connell and Corrin will be joined Matthew Duckett who is a bit of newcomer to the screen. He recently appeared as Loyal in The Royal National Theatre’s production of Tartuffe and in the leading role of Chris in My Left/Right Foot – The Musical at The National Theatre of Scotland. His TV credits includes Confession for ITV and Doctors for the BBC.

This will be the first film to be produced under the new partnership where Sony Pictures will offer Netflix a first look at any films it intends to make for streaming.