Cannes 2010 - Filming has begun in Connecticut on the Tilda Swinton-starring adaptation of Lionel Shriver's bestselling novel We Need To Talk About Kevin .

Speaking to Variety, director Lynne Ramsay described Kevin as "a wonderful project for me, and completely differentও from my o🎶ther work."

It's a fair point, given that the story 𝔉takes place very much in America and not Ramsay's native Scotland, where her previous work has remained.

Shri🔴ver's novel, adapted for the screen by Ramsay and her husband Rory Kinnear, surrounds a fictional high school massacre perpetrated by the title's Kevin (newcomer Ezra﷽ Miller).

The events leading up to the shooting unfold through a series of letters from Kevin's mother (Swinton) to her estranged❀ husband (John C Reilly).

Jennifer Fox and Steven Soderbergh are producing and exec producing respe🦩ctively.

This is not Ramsay's first time adapting an emotionally charged bestseller for the screen - she wrote a script for The Lovely Bones while it was still in manuscript form.

But the novel became a hit, and Ramsa💫y's low-key, intimate adaptation was nixed in favour of Peter Jackson's more ambitious vision when, in her words, "people got greedy."

With a modest $10 million to play with, it's looking unlikely that this adaptation will repeat the The Lovely Bones' mainstream-friendly mistakes, and Swinton is perfectly cast in the difficult, frequently unsympathetic leading role of a mother who struggles to𓂃 love her son long before he becomes a killer.

We Need To Talk About Kevin is scheduled for release in 2011.

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