Ménage à Trois And Machine Gun Attack: The Lives of Poets

Thanks Wit for this update on one of my favorite projects soon to be coming out of one of my favorite towns:

"Another film due to start shooting in Laugharne, Newquay and Swansea this year, has the working title The Best Years of our Lives.

It will star Welsh actor Matthew Rhys as Dylan Thomas and Keira Knightly as his childhood sweetheart, Vera Phillips, in a movie based on a screenplay written by Knightley's mother, award-winning playwright Sharman Macdonald. Lindsay Lohan will play Dylan's wife, Caitlin.

The movie will feature Dylan carrying on with both women, a three-in-a-bed romp and a supposed lesbian fling.

According to Sharman Macdonald, the film "charts the complex emotional bond" shared by Dylan, Caitlin, Vera and her eventual husband William Killick.

It features an alleged attack on the poet's temporary home in New Quay, West Wales, by Killick, involving a machine gun and the detonation of a hand grenade, said to have taken place when commando Killick returned from World War II action, only to hear neighbourhood gossip about his wife's behaviour. He was cleared of any criminal behaviour by magistrates.

Dylan's daughter Aeronwy, whose famous father died when she was just 10, says the menage a trois tale is 'pure speculation'."

Link: icWales - Latest Dylan film based on Milk Wood.

via WIT