Tomas Alfredson’s anticipated psychodrama “Séance on a Moist Afternoon,” starring Oscar winner Rachel Weisz (“The Favorite”), has been boarded by FilmNation forward of the Cannes Movie Market. Home rights are being repped by UTA Unbiased Movie Group and CAA Media Finance.
Penned by “Adolescence” author Jack Thorne, “Séance on a Moist Afternoon” relies on Mark McShane’s bestselling 1961 suspense novel of the identical identify. Weisz will star as Myra, a self-proclaimed medium who convinces her husband Billy to kidnap the son of a rich household so she will lead the police to the “lacking” youngster and legitimize her psychic skills. When Myra’s true intentions come to mild, nonetheless, Billy realizes her plan threatens to eat them each.
The novel was beforehand tailored right into a critically acclaimed 1964 movie starring Richard Attenborough and Kim Stanley, who earned a greatest actress Oscar nomination for her efficiency.
Alfredson, who’s greatest identified for guiding the BAFTA-winning “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and the cult Swedish style movie “Let the Proper One In,” mentioned in a press release: “I’m drawn to complicated characters, and Jack Thorne’s edge-of-your-seat script blends psychologically deep characters with unnerving twists and turns. With Rachel Weisz on the core of this undertaking, each producing and starring as Myra, the movie is bound to be highly effective and unnerving. It’s a haunting exploration of desperation and the delicate line between actuality and delusion.”
“Séance on a Moist Afternoon” might be produced by Robyn Slovo; Astral Projection’s Polly Stokes and Rachel Weisz; and Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe for Aspect Footage (a Fremantle firm), whose credit embody Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Issues.”
The undertaking is part of the first-look and growth deal that Astral Projection, the banner arrange by Weisz and Stokes (“American Honey,” “Wild Rose”), signed with Fremantle final 12 months.
Alfredson is repped by UTA. Weisz is repped by Unbiased, CAA, Linden Leisure, ID PR and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman. Thorne is repped by UTA and Sloane, Supply, Weber and Dern.
Weisz can be at present getting ready to exec produce and play the lead position in Netflix’s restricted sequence “Vladimir,” primarily based on the novel by Julia Might Jonas, a couple of girl who turns into obsessed along with her charming new colleague.
FilmNation’s Cannes market slate additionally contains Olivia Wilde‘s subsequent film “The Invite,” wherein she is going to star alongside Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton.
