Heart of Stone
“Belfast” and “The Tourist” star Jamie Dornan will join Gal Gadot in the international spy thriller “Heart of Stone” at Netflix and Skydance. Plot details are being kept under wraps.
Tom Harper directs from a script by Greg Rucka and Allison Schroeder. Gadot, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Bonnie Curtis, Jaron Varsano and Julie Lynn are producing. [Source: Deadline]
The Substance
Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley will star in “Revenge” filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s new thriller “The Substance” for Universal Pictures and Working Title Films. Filming begins in Paris this May.
Fargeat penned the script and will produce it with Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan. The project is dubbed an “explosive feminist take on body horror” but plot specifics are under wraps. [Source: Deadline]
Hot Milk
Jessie Buckley (“The Lost Daughter”), Fiona Shaw (“Killing Eve”) and Vicky Krieps (“Old”) have signed on to star in “Colette” screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s directorial feature debut “Hot Milk” based on Deborah Levy’s best-selling novel.
The story follows a mother (Shaw) and daughter (Buckley) who travel to a Spanish clinic in Almeria in the hope of finding a cure for the older woman’s paralysis. Krieps plays an enigmatic traveller the daughter befriends. [Source: Variety]
Champions
Woody Harrelson, Kaitlin Olson, Cheech Marin, and Matt Cook will star in Bobby Farrelly’s English-language adaptation of the Spanish film “Champions” at Focus Features.
The story follows a minor league basketball coach who is forced to do community service and decides to help coach a Special Olympics team. [Source: The Playlist]
Starve Acre
Former “Doctor Who” star Matt Smith and “Saint Maud” actress Morfydd Clark are set to star in Daniel Kokotajlo’s stylistic supernatural horror film “Starve Acre”. Filming begins this Spring in the UK.
The film is based on Andrew Michael Hurley’s novel and explores inherited trauma and loss within a world ruled by supernatural folklore. The actors play a disconnected couple in 1970s England who are worried about their son’s strange behaviour. [Source: Variety]
