EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-winner Aimee Lou Wooden (Intercourse Schooling), coming off a lauded flip in HBO’s The White Lotus S3, is ready to star reverse Oscar winner Angelina Jolie in Marc Forster function adaptation of Anxious Individuals, the Black Bear and Hope Studios mission we advised you about coming into the Cannes market.
A buzzy mission simply bought buzzier. The synopsis reads: “The day earlier than Christmas Eve, funding banker Zara (Jolie) begrudgingly finds herself mingling with a bunch of strangers at an open home. When a reluctant financial institution robber, Grace (Wooden), inadvertently takes the group hostage, chaos and oversharing ensues, secrets and techniques are revealed and actually nothing goes based on plan. A movie a few crime that by no means came about, a would-be financial institution robber who disappears into skinny air, and eight extraordinarily anxious strangers who discover they’ve extra in frequent than they ever imagined.”
Based mostly on A Man Referred to as Ove writer Fredrik Backman’s novel, the movie is being bought for worldwide at Cannes by Black Bear and WME Impartial for home. The story has been tailored for the display by Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Magee, recognized for films together with A Man Referred to as Otto, Lifetime of Pi, and Discovering Neverland.
The film will reunite among the key gamers behind the 2022 function adaptation of A Man Referred to as Otto ($110M international field workplace), additionally primarily based on Backman’s novel. Hope Studios’ Fredrik Wikström Nicastro (A Man Referred to as Otto) and Renée Wolfe (A Man Referred to as Otto) of 2DUX2 will produce, with A Man Referred to as Otto and World Battle Z director Forster, Magee and Neda Backman executive-producing.
Wooden’s function work contains starring with Invoice Nighy in Oscar nominated Residing, and reverse Benedict Cumberbatch in The Electrical Lifetime of Louis Wain.
Hope Studios, which has workplaces in Stockholm and London, develops, funds, produces, and sells worldwide movies and TV for the worldwide market. The agency has an total cope with Black Bear, which companions with the corporate on worldwide gross sales and distribution. 2DUX2, owned by Marc Forster and Renée Wolfe, will produce with Hope Studios.
Hope Studios’ present slate additionally contains The Evening Home, an adaptation of grasp storyteller Jo Nesbø’s chilling novel of the identical title starring Aaron Paul, which is ready to shoot this summer time in Álava, Spain. The studio can be establishing a function adaptation of Robin Sharma’s The Monk Who Bought His Ferrari.
Black Bear’s Cannes slate additionally contains David O. Rusell’s Shutout, starring Robert De Niro and Jenna Ortega.
Wooden is represented by CAA, Impartial Expertise Group and Slone, Supply.
