WENN Kate Winslet's pet film project has been saved from disaster by good samaritan David Bowie.

Titanic actress Kate has long wanted to make a movie of the classic novel Therese Raquin by Emile Zola.

Filming was initially postponed while Kate gave birth to baby Mia last year, then a producer pulled out of the production, throwing Kate's plans into disarray.

Luckily she and husband Jim Threapleton met with Ashes To Ashes rocker Bowie recently and thrashed out a plan to work on a script, with shooting hopefully starting later this year.

Kate says, "I have this passion for the Therese Raquin story. It has everything and it's my intention to make it. It's the first project Jim and I have helped to produce and I would really like it to work."

Intermedia Films will bankroll the picture, while Bowie and the team at his film company will work with Kate and Jim on the script, casting and production.

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MSNBC NEWS - February 13, 2001
David Bowie is stepping up to produce Kate Winslet‘s pet project, “Therese Raquin,” a morbid sexual drama, after the original producers bailed out. . . .