After a successful festival, theatrical performances and awards are held HamnetPaul Mescal and Jesse Buckley will return to work together in a love story Hold on to your angels From Binh Zeitlin.
Zeitlin, who was in the back Beasts of the Southern WildHe wrote and will direct the film set on the edge of south Louisiana. Mescal will play a “hell-bound outlaw,” and Buckley will play a “fierce shepherd of lost souls,” who “then falls in disastrous love as a crumbling bayou paradise drags them down,” according to the film’s synopsis.
“Hold on to your angels It is the most impossible love story you have ever witnessed – an outlaw love story for the end of America, set on the rickety edge of south Louisiana. I’ve been dreaming of writing it ever since its heroine, Pam Harper, walked into an audition Beasts of the Southern Wild Seventeen years ago. It’s a love letter to an endangered way of life, and a rallying cry for compassion across a fractured planet, said Zeitlin, who last directed Searchlight. Wendy.
Plan B will result Hold on to your angelsalongside Oscar winner Alex Cuoco (Anora, the red rocket) under his Rapt Film banner.
The project, which will begin filming in February, will be sold outside of the Cannes market, with CAA handling domestic rights and Veterans Affairs selling international rights.
Buckley won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in a film Hamnet It was last in theaters with Maggie Gyllenhaal’s monster movie Bride! She is repped by CAA, United Agents and Johnson Shapiro. Mescal, is set to play Paul McCartney in the Sam Mendes film The Beatles Films, is repped by CAA and The Curtis Brown Group. Zeitlin is repped by CAA and Lichter Grossman.
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