Anderson and Isaacs to star in adaptation of Winn’s The Salt Path

Actors Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs are set to star in the film adaptation of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path (Penguin Michael Joseph).

Two-time Emmy award-winning Anderson, who has starred in “The Crown” and “Sex Education”, will play Raynor Winn, while Winn’s husband, Moth, will be played by Isaacs, who appeared in The Harry Potter films and “The Death of Stalin”.

The film rights deal was jointly handled by Jennifer Christie of Graham Maw Christie and Meg Davis of the Ki Agency, who optioned the rights in 2018 to Lloyd Levin and Beatriz Levin and includes the author Raynor Winn as a co-producer.

The Salt Path was shortlisted for the 2018 Costa Biography Award; shortlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018 and was the winner of the Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize 2018. Winn’s follow-up title, The Wild Silence (also PMJ) was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for the 2021 Indie Book Awards and the 2021 Wainwright Prize.  

"The Salt Path" was developed with support from BBC Film and is being produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley for Number 9 Films, and Lloyd Levin and Beatriz Levin for Shadowplay Features. The director, Marianne Elliott, is a Tony Award and Olivier Award winning theatre artist and “The Salt Path” will be her screen-directing debut.

"The Salt Path" is due to start shooting in the south west in less than three weeks, and the news comes just as Winn’s third book, Landlines (PMJ), has been released in paperback.

Winn said: “The thought of a big screen adaptation of our life is quite surreal, but having had the pleasure of meeting Gillian and Jason I’m sure our story will be in safe hands.”