In a shocking and unpredicted move, Keira Knightley has signed up to star in a movie set in the 21st Century. No pirates, no period clothing, no old fashioned wigs…just cars, hit and runs, the internet and other stuff we have nowadays. The movie is called Last Night and the cast includes Eva Mendes (The Spirit), Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation, Avatar) and Guillaume Canet (He’s french).

From Variety:

Story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he’s attracted. While he’s resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.

The film will be the directing debut of Massy Tadjedin, who wrote the script and has also been writing an untitled project for Steven Spielberg.

Kiera Knightly is at it again! She stars opposite Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys in a tale of lust, love, betrayal and revenge. Could this possibly be another Atonement, as one reviewer suggests? Here’s the synopsis:

Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips and Dylan were teenage loves; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. She’s working as a singer whilst he’s churning out scripts for government propaganda films and living off the last in a long line of infatuated women. The two former lovers feel the thunderbolt once more, but Thomas is now married to the adventurous Caitlin. Despite their love-rival status, the women form a surprising friendship. Caitlin indulges in her own infidelities, and recognises a similar adventurous spirit in her husband. But she knows his connection with Vera is something different, not to mention dangerous.

Sounds interesting, but no Atonement. We’ll just have to see! Expect to see the The Edge of Love in theaters starting on June 18…