“High Life” director Claire Denis, actor Robert Pattinson and distributor A24 are all set to re-team for Denis’ next feature, the English-language period thriller “The Stars At Noon”.
The story is set during the Nicaraguan Revolution and the height of the Contra War in that country in 1984. Pattinson will play a mysterious English businessman who meets an American Journalist (Margaret Qualley) reporting on the revolution.
The two have an instant connection and a passionate romance ensues, only for a “dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies” to force them to try and escape the country. The script is being adapted from Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel by co-writers Denis, Lea Mysius, and Andrew Litvack.
A24 has picked up North American distribution rights ahead of the European Film Market this week, and the aim is to film the project later this year (likely Pattinson’s first post-Batman film project) for a 2021 theatrical release.
Source: Indiewire
