MUMBAI: 48-year-old Clive Owen will play the lead role in the adaptation of Francine Prose‘s novel Vlue Angel.

Blue Angel centers around Swenson, a washed up professor in a New England creative writing programme. When a new student joins his class, he finds the inspiration he has been lacking for years until their relationship takes a sinister turn.

Richard Levine has been given the responsibility of writing and directing the psychological roller coaster ride between sex, seduction and emotional manipulation.

Owen was most recently seen as Ernest Hemingway in the television miniseries Hemingway and Gellhorn.