After having a successful career as an actress, Australian star Cate Blanchett is all set to make her directorial debut with a physiological thriller titled "The Dinner." The movie is adapted from Dutch writer Herman Koch's thriller book by the same name and is a dark story based on the lives of two couples.

It is unclear whether the Australian actress will also star in the film or just direct it, says Deadline.com. "The Dinner" is a tense drama based on the story of two couples, two brothers and their wives - and explores the extent to which the two parents will go to protect their children. It will portray the horrifying assault by their teenage sons on a homeless woman.

Each couple has 15-year-old sons who come across a homeless woman sleeping in an ATM cubicle. (Here is the Spoiler Alert now!) The boys beat the "bad smelling" woman with a lamp and finally set fire to a gas can. It results in gas fumes that explode and kill her. Rest you will have to watch the movie to see what the powerful couples will do to save their sons.

The entire story is seen unfolding over one dinner with flashback scenes in between. According to the review of the novel by NY times, the story is confined to just one restaurant room.

"Koch confines his story to one fraught restaurant meal, where malice, cruelty, craziness and a deeply European malaise are very much on the menu," the reviewers wrote about the novel.

The novel by Koch is an international best seller which was first published in Dutch language in 2009 but now has been translated into 21 languages.

American screenwriter Oren Moverman will adapt "The Dinner." Moverman directed and co-wrote "The Messenger." The movie is being produced by Cotty Chubb and Eva Maria Daniels and Olga Segura are executive producers.

The "Blue Jasmine" actress does have a previous experience in directing as she spent five years as co-artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company alongside her playwright husband Andrew Upton. But in 2012 the actress stepped down to work in movies.

The 44-year-old actress is also looking forward to get an Oscar nomination for her role as a troubled New York socialite, in the film "Blue Jasmine" directed by Woody Allen.

New York