In furter casting news, we don’t hold with all this Knightley slagging, but the notion of Keira as Anna Karenina sounds like a little too much to bear.

Joe Wright, who directed her in Pride & Prejudiceand Atonement, is to helm a new version of Tolstoy's novel starring the pale one.

There’s more. Aaron Johnson will be the dashing Vronsky, while Jude Law will play the husband. Hmm?