Tessa Thompson and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will star in the psychological thriller directed by Aoife McArdle. Foxfinder.
He will join them Adolescence Owen Cooper’s outbreak Foxfinderbased on Dawn King’s award-winning play, with a screenplay co-written by director McArdle and playwright.
The lives of Judd and Sam, a grieving couple clinging to routine and survival, are turned upside down when William, a coldly religious government “fox detector,” arrives at their struggling farm on a mission to root out a designated enemy – the fox. “As paranoia deepens and absurd regulations tighten their grip, suspicion replaces love and truth itself begins to distort.”
Cornerstone and Logical Pictures Group will share international sales and distribution. Sales will launch in Cannes, and production is scheduled to begin in Germany this summer.
The film is a Rabbit Track Pictures and Elation Pictures production developed in collaboration with Film4 and BFI (National Lottery Funding Grant), and co-produced by Komplizen Film and Trimafilm. In addition to support from Film4 and the BFI, funders include Logical Pictures Group, the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), the Bavarian Fund FFF Bayern, and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
Foxfinder Produced by Camilla Hodul and Emilie Geoffroy for Elation Pictures, whose most recent films, The end of itThe film, starring Rebecca Hall, Gael Garcia Bernal and Naomi Rapace, will have its world premiere in Cannes. Rabbit Track Pictures’ Katie Kalitsky is producing, along with Trimafilm’s Janine Jackowski and David Armati-Lechner. Executive producers are Farhana Bhola and Kate Kane for Film4 and Fred Fiore and Ryan Wickers for Logical.
Hodol and Geoffroy described McArdle as a “visionary storyteller.” “Her bold and cinematic style,” they said Foxfinder It will be epic and profound. We are thrilled to bring it to life with such an outstanding cast and supporting cast.
Kaletsky added:FoxfinderThe poignant and absurd examination of tyranny, prejudice and scapegoating seems more timely with each passing week, and the themes of the play and film will resonate with audiences around the world.
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