Emma Corrin is having a particularly good week. Not only has British Vogue’s October 2020 cover star been nominated for both a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for her turn as Diana, Princess of Wales, in The Crown, but she’s now locked in her next big project – namely, starring opposite Harry Styles in an adaptation of Bethan Roberts’s 2012 novel, My Policeman. Former artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse Michael Grandage will direct, with Oscar-nominated Philadelphia screenwriter Ron Nyswaner penning the script.

Due for release via Amazon Studios, the film’s plot will centre on husband and wife, Marion (Corrin) and titular policeman Tom (Styles), as the pair meet and fall in love along the Brighton coast in the ’50s. Enter Patrick, a curator at the Brighton Museum, who also develops feelings for Tom, with the two beginning a passionate, lasting affair – in spite of homosexuality being illegal at the time. For a while, the threesome embrace their lives as a ménage a trois, until jealousy shatters their arrangement. Fast forward to the ’90s, and the frail Patrick reenters the lives of the now-married Marion and Tom, with predictably dramatic consequences.

Styles is, of course, currently shooting Don’t Worry Darling, the latest film project from the ever-brilliant Olivia Wilde, but will be back on home shores by the time that production for My Policeman begins in April. Amazon is due to reveal the actor set to play Patrick shortly – along with three older stars who will appear as the lovers in the ’90s. Which begs the question: who on earth could play a middle-aged Harry Styles?