Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ralph Fiennes Team on Farnsworth House Feature

American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary, The Kindergarten Teacher) and English actor Ralph Fiennes (Schindler’s List, The Grand Budapest Hotel) will star in a film depicting events that unfolded around the creation of the Farnsworth House.

The Farnsworth House, which is now a US landmark, is an entirely steel and glass house constructed in the mid 1940s- early 1950s by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who also designed it. It was commissioned by Edith Farnsworth who was a prominent nephrologist in Chicago and it sits on an estate site south of Plano, Illinois. The film will be set in Chicago during the 1940s with Fiennes portraying the architect Der Rohe and Gyllenhaal as Dr. Farnsworth. It will follow the events of trying to build the first glass house and the turbulent love affair that took place between the architect and the doctor.

Richard Press wrote the script and will direct while Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa will produce the picture. With both Fiennes and Gyllenhaal having prolific acting careers, this film has the high possibility of having wonderful performances from its leads. Little is currently known about the project as it is currently in pre-production.

Robert Thornson Jr.: My name is Robert and I am currently an undergraduate student at the University of California Irvine. I am pursuing a B.A. in Film and Media studies with hopes to work in the creative industry. I have always had a passion for storytelling and since youth I've loved film. I grew up loving the movies of directors like Wes Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, and many more along with writers such as Aaron Sorkin and Quentin Tarantino. One thing I have always done is write about movies and communicate to others information about the "film community" and the industry as well as about the films themselves. I write creatively on a daily basis.
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