“Obi-Wan Kenobi” star Moses Ingram, Golden Globe-nominee Michael Shannon, Irish singer/actress Bronagh Gallagher and British acting veterans Tim McInnerny and Lennie James have all scored supporting roles in “The Act Of Killing” director Joshua Oppenheimer’s new musical feature “The End” at Neon.
The group join Tilda Swinton and “1917” star George MacKay in the musical which revolves around a wealthy ex-oil industrialist family who has survived the end of the world in a palatial underground bunker for two decades.
The family consists of a couple and their young adult son who has never seen the outside world. There’s also a maid, a doctor, a butler and a young woman who managed to survive and find her way in.
Initially feeling righteousness over their survival, the couple are soon haunted by regret for those they lost and guilt over their own contribution to the apocalypse.
The project is said to be inspired by Broadway’s Golden Age and its ‘optimism born of fear’. Filming has begun in Ireland, with the shoot to move to Italy and Germany over the Spring.
Oppenheimer says in a statement: “I am thrilled to be making The End in collaboration with this miraculous ensemble of artists. I am in awe of each of them. It has been a journey of six years to reach this point, and I could not be more humbled.”
Signe Byrge Sørensen and Oppenheimer will produce with Final Cut for Real, Wild Atlantic Pictures, The Match Factory, Dorje Film, Moonspun Films and Anagram all onboard.
Source: Deadline
