Mothering Sunday
Josh O’Connor (“The Crown,” “Gods Own Country”), Odessa Young (“Shirley,” “Assassination Nation”), Oscar winner Olivia Colman (“The Favourite,” “The Crown”), and Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech,” “A Single Man”) have all joined Eva Husson’s new film “Mothering Sunday”. Alice Birch (“Lady Macbeth”) penned the screenplay from the bestselling novel by Graham Swift.
Set on an unseasonably hot spring day in 1924 in Beechwood, England, the story follows an orphaned maid on her day off while her employers celebrate their only remaining adult son’s engagement. Trouble is, she has spent the past seven year being the lover of said aristocratic son and this marks their last day as lovers. [Source: Variety]
Alice
Common and Jonny Lee Miller will join Keke Palmer in the true events-inspired thriller “Alice”. The story follows a woman in servitude in 1800s Georgia who escapes her captor to discover the shocking reality that exists beyond the tree line – it’s 1973. Krystin Ver Linden helms the project which will begin shooting in August in Georgia. [Source: THR]
Hunters Dark
Aneurin Barnard (“Dunkirk”) and Alex Pettyfer (“Magic Mike”) have been cast alongside Tzi Ma (“Mulan”), Ellen Wong (“Glow”) and Elodie Yung (“Daredevil”) in Simon Evans’ thriller “Hunters In The Dark”. Filming is due to begin later this year.
Pettyfer plays a 28-year-old English school teacher who unexpectedly wins a bag full of cash. Adrift in Cambodia and eager for a way out of his life of quiet desperation, he decides to take a journey deeper into the wilder aspects of the country – confronting a scheming American, a crooked police officer and a darker side of the country. [Source: Deadline]
Robots
Emma Roberts (“AHS 1984”) and Jack Whitehall (“Jungle Cruise”) are set to star in Ant Hines’ near-future independent comedy “Robots”. The story follows a womanizer and a gold digger who trick people into relationships with illegal robot doubles of themselves.
When they unwittingly use this scam on each other, their robot doubles fall in love and elope, forcing the duo to team up to hunt them down before the authorities discover their secret. Hines and Casper Christensen penned the screenplay based on a short story by Robert Sheckley. [Source: Variety]
Moonshot
Lana Condor (“To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”) will star in sci-fi rom-com “Moonshot” for HBO Max. Greg Berlanti is attached to produce the film which is set in a future where Mars is terraformed and colonized by the best humanity has to offer.
Condor plays a focused and buttoned-up college student, Sophie, who had a plan until her boyfriend Calvin moved to Mars. Now she has decided to go after him. Chris Winterbauer will direct the project, with Max Taxe set to write the screenplay. [Source: THR]
