Philip Roth's novella Dying Animal is to be made into a film by the same team who made The Human Stain. It centres on an affair between a 62-year-old professor and his 24-year-old student who, years after the end of their relationship, returns with shocking news. The cast includes Penelope Cruz as the student, Ben Kingsley as the professor, and Dennis Hopper, Peter Sarsgaard and Debbie Harry.

Directing will be Isabel Coixet - an interesting choice, given that when the novella was published in 2001, Roth was widely accused of being misogynistic. Linda Grant wrote of his "dark distaste for women, a repugnance that can only be described by the word misogyny. One must resist the urge to psychoanalyse or to conflate Roth with his male creations, but the palpable sense of disgust towards the women characters has certainly intensified. It's deeply rooted, almost medieval."