Virginia Woolf's Night and Day is an upcoming British/German film adaptation of the Virginia Woolf novel of the same name. It has an ensemble cast including Haley Bennett, Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders, Jack Whitehall, Sally Phillips, Lily Allen, and Elyas M'Barek.
In Britain at the turn of the 20th century, a female astronomer tries to avoid the patriarchal attitudes of the day.
Set in London in 1910 brilliant and headstrong Katharine Hilbery (Haley Bennett) resists her parents' plans for marriage, determined instead to pursue her passion for astronomy. When her controlling father, Mr. Hilbery (Timothy Spall) forces her into an engagement with family friend William (Jack Whitehall), Katharine's carefully guarded independence is threatened.
Her world begins to expand when she befriends spirited suffragette Mary Datchet (Lily Allen) and crosses paths with working-class editor Ralph Denham (Elyas M'Barek), who is assisting her mother, Mrs. Hilbery (Jennifer Saunders) with a family biography. As romantic loyalties shift, Katharine is pushed to question everything she has been taught about love, ambition, and how to claim her space in the world.
The Virginia Woolf novel Night and Day is adapted for this project by Justine Waddell. The film is directed by Tina Gharavi. It is produced by Asterisk Films, Piccadilly Pictures, Stellican, Kioski, and GLISK, and the producers include Justine Waddell, Stephen Julius, Christopher Figg, Meg Thomson, Julie Link and Philipp Steffens.
An ensemble cast is led by Haley Bennett, Timothy Spall, and Lily Allen, and also includes Jennifer Saunders, Jack Whitehall and Sally Phillips.
Principal photography began in Newcastle upon Tyne in late 2024, and was completed in February 2025. Filming locations included the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, Common Room of the Great North, Ryhope Engines Museum, Tanfield Railway and Beamish Museum. Additional filming took place in Cologne, Germany.
The film is intended to be released in (Northern Hemisphere) 2026.