Summer In February with Dominic Cooper starts shooting in January

Dominic Cooper (The Devil’s Double) stars as AJ (later Sir Alfred) Munnings, with Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) as Gilbert Evans and Ophelia Lovibond (Mr Popper’s Penguins) as Florence Carter-Wood in CrossDay/Apart Films’ love story SUMMER IN FEBRUARY, which is scheduled to commence principal photography in January 2012.

Adapted from his own novel by Jonathan Smith, SUMMER IN FEBRUARY, which also stars Hattie Morahan (The Bank Job) as impressionist painter (Dame) Laura Knight, will be directed by Christopher Menaul (Prime Suspect) and produced by CrossDay’s Pippa Cross and Janette Day (Vanity Fair) and Apart Films’ Jeremy Cowdrey, with Bob Benton and Dan Stevens as executive producers.

The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain’s most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True – and deeply moving – the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.