Source: Variety

John Malkovich has replaced Ralph Fiennes as the star of  DISGRACE, the bigscreen adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel, says Variety.

Malkovich plays a professor of romantic poetry who has an affair with one of his students and is driven into exile. But his new love is tested when the pair become victims of a vicious attack. Film reunites Fortissimo and key elements of Oz drama "La Spagnola," which company repped three years ago. Coetzee-approved screenplay was penned by "Spagnola" scripter Anna-Maria Monticelli and will be helmed by that film's director Steve Jacobs.

Filming is scheduled to begin this fall.