Kenneth Branagh is returning to the low-budget British roots of his earlier successes for his next project, "In the Bleak Mid-Winter," which he scripted and will direct.
Mr. Branagh, whose last project, "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," was a critical and commercial disappointment, had said he planned to return to a smaller canvas for his next venture. This time, however, unlike in all his previous films, he will not act in the feature, which is privately financed and doesn't yet have a distributor.