The UK actress is attached to star in the 1960s Ligurian drama for Cross Creek Pictures and Smuggler Films.

Todd Field will direct the adaptation of Jess Walter’s bestseller about a young actress on the Ligurian coast in 1962 at the time of La Dolce Vita and her relationship with four very different men, one of whom is Richard Burton.

Poots will play Dee Moray and the producers are out to casting for the male characters.

Field and Walters co-wrote the screenplay and will produce through Standard Film Company with Cross Creek’s Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson and Smuggler Films’ Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody.

Adam Kassan will oversee production for Cross Creek Pictures when filming starts in May 2014 in Italy.

Poots’ credits include Solitary Man, A Late Quartet, The Look Of Love and the upcoming Knight Of Cups.

CAA packaged the project and represents domestic rights. No international sales agent was on baord at time of writing.