The official Facebook page for the upcoming Stephen Frears film Tamara Drewe has just released the first image from the film. You can click on this brand new image of actress Gemma Arterton as the title character to access our image gallery for the film, which is set for a 2011 release.



A live-action feature adaptation of Posy Simmonds' acclaimed graphic novel Tamara Drewe. Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, Clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time) will play Drewe, a sexy flirt who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals.

Simmonds' novel, itself a collection of comic strips she first published in U.K. newspaper the Guardian, is a modern reimagining of Thomas Hardy's classic novel "Far From the Madding Crowd."

Tamara Drewe was released October 8th, 2010 and stars Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans, Tamsin Greig, Roger Allam, Bill Camp, Zahra Ahmadi, Jessica Barden. The film is directed by Stephen Frears.