Article courtesy the Boston Herald: Richard Dreyfuss plays a woman-hating Cape Codder in his new flick “The Lightkeepers,” and while the Hollywood heavy has nothing against the fairer sex, he says he can sort of relate to the role! “In the past there were groups of men who called themselves ‘Woman Haters,’ ” Dreyfuss told the Track. “Not because they were gay, but more because they were shy and, you know, women are from another planet.” Dreyfuss, Blythe Danner, Mamie Gummer (Meryl Streep’s daughter) and Tom Wisdom of “300″ fame, are on the Outer Cape this week filming scenes for their 1912-set comedy. Dreyfuss and Wisdom play a pair of lighthouse tenders who have sworn off ladies, until a free-spirited Boston society gal (Gummer) and her housekeeper (Danner) rent a nearby cottage for the summer. The cast and crew have shot scenes at the two lighthouses in Provincetown and currently are filming at Cook’s Camp, a 100-plus-year-old cottage colony overlooking the ocean at LeCount’s Hollow Beach in Wellfleet. “I was inspired by the short stories of Joseph Lincoln and some Cape Cod folklore that I cobbled together,” said writer-director Dan Adams, who is making a trilogy of Cape films “as a homage to the place where I grew up.” Adams’ first Cape flick, “The Golden Boys,” was also based on a Joseph Lincoln book, and Danner said that flick is one of the reasons she decided to do “The Lightkeepers.” Gummer, the spitting image of her legendary mom, plays Ruth, a bohemian Bostonian and suffragette who decides to go back to nature by spending a summer on the Cape. “I do my finest work in a corset,” joked Gummer, who played John and Abigail Adams’ daughter-in-law Sallie in the HBO miniseries “John Adams.” Mamie said she’s having a blast with the film – and the great old summer frocks she wears in it. “I feel like I’m in a painting,” she said. “But I’m drawn to period pieces like this. It’s a chance to time travel.”

Principal photography has begun on Daniel Adams’ period romantic comedy The Lightkeepers starring Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner. Toronto-based Cinemavault holds Canadian and international rights and is introducing the project to buyers in Cannes. The Lightkeepers tells the story of a lighthouse keeper and his mysterious assistant who have sworn off women but must confront two attractive females who move into a nearby summer cottage. Tom Wisdom, Mamie Gummer and Bruce Dern also star. Adams wrote the screenplay with Larry Frenzel, who is producing through his Birchwood Pictures label with Penelope L Foster and Harris Tulchin. Below are the first production stills from the film. I’d like to thank Melissa, the webmaster of our newest affiliate Tom Wisdom.net for bringing this project to my attention. Thanks very much!