TORONTO, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe and Demián Bichir have signed on to star in director-producer Paul Weitz's screen adaptation of Ann Patchett's book Bel Canto.
Bel Canto is described in press notes as "a love story set against a backdrop of immortal music and mortal danger, which sees Roxane Coss, a famous American soprano, travel to a military dictatorship in South America to give a private concert at the birthday party of rich, Japanese industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa."