'Travels with my Aunt' launches Brit shingle

Brit producer-scribe Andy Paterson and the film writer wife Olivia Hetreed, who composed Andrea Arnold's "Wuthering Levels," have became a member of forces to produce new Brit-based shingle Supportive Ink.Company's first project is really a musical adaptation of Graham Greene's tome "Travels With My Aunt," that the pair have composed and therefore are creating alongside Jolyon Symonds and Nicholas Greene's Ascension Entertainment. Project, referred to being an "up-to-date" version of Greene's story in regards to a upon the market bank manager attracted in to the enchanting realm of his eccentric aunt, reps the couple's first co-scripting effort although not their first project together: Paterson created Hetreed's adaptation of "Girl Having a Gem Earring" in 2003. The pair, who have photos screening in Toronto this season -- Paterson's "Burning Guy" tested to auds on Saturday, while Hetreed's "Wuthering Levels" tested Friday -- have up-to-date the storyline to the current day with flashes towards the late sixties/early '70s.Paterson and Hetreed will write original tunes for that story having a composer, who's not yet been confirmed, as the British Film Institute has boarded the project at development stage. Paterson formerly created Bobby Darin biopic "Past the Ocean," which saw Kevin Spacey inside a musical role."Both of us love musicals," Paterson told Variety. "As well as in thinking about the way you desired to tell this story, this appeared the very best fit."On dealing with her husband, Hetreed added: "We have done script editing for one another on different projects before but we have never written together. Now, it appears quite natural as you may know each other peoples taste and that we trust one another." Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com