Ever since Rachel Getting Married graced our movie screens in 2008, I’ve pretty much been on a non-stop Anne Hathaway kick. And while nothing has really come close to her performance as Kym in said film, I nonetheless seek out anything she’ll be appearing in (including her fun performance in Alice in Wonderland (our R3view)). I’ve also been keen on checking out more from Jim Sturgess who piqued my interest with the much debated Across the Universe. And of course a lot of the ladies these days are big fans of him simply for the geeky, eye candy.

Now it appears they’re close to signing a deal to work with Lone Scherfig on her follow-up to 2009′s very underrated and underseen screen gem, An Education (Laura’s review); a screen adaptation of David Nicholls’ romance novel, “One Day.”

synopsis:

Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twenty years, two people, ONE DAY.

Coming from the director of An Education (again, one of the finer films, in almost every regard, of 2009 – maybe should’ve gotten best director?) is enough to get me in the seats alone. I like the idea of the premise and pairing Hathaway and Sturgess together in there just seems like the perfect concoction to create something really great. And being that it’s a Focus Feature endeavor, I’m sure it will be something we’ll be talking about with high regard near the end of 2011.