Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton have joined the cast of “The Awakening” for StudioCanal and BBC Films reports Deadline.
Hall plays a paranormal investigator in post-WW1 England who sets out to debunk claims of spiritualism. She soon comes across an actual haunting in a countryside boarding school.
Nick Murphy (“Surviving Disaster and Occupation”) will direct from a script he co-wrote with Stephen Volk. David Thompson will produce.
Filming kicks off in the UK in late June.