EXCLUSIVE: Aisling Walsh’s upcoming bio-pic Lucia, starring Maya Hawke because the titular Lucia Joyce, has offered into two main European territories inside hours of being introduced by gross sales firm The Veterans.
ARP Sélection, which is in Cannes with Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Imprecise, has acquired French rights, whereas Vertigo Movies has taken Spain. Its Cannes titles this yr embrace Exit 8 and Younger Moms.
Walsh’s psychological drama biopic Lucia, stars Hawke because the troubled determine of Lucia Joyce reverse Rhys Ifans as her father, the celebrated Irish author James Joyce.
Born in Trieste in 1907, because the second little one of Ulysses author Joyce and Nora Barnacle (later Nora Joyce), Lucia Joyce spent her early childhood within the cosmopolitan port metropolis in addition to Zurich, earlier than the household moved to Paris in 1920, the place she pursued her dream of turning into a dancer.
With a screenplay written by Michael Kinirons, the movie will comply with Lucia as she struggles to fulfil her private ambition to change into an expert dancer, whereas navigating her advanced relationship together with her father as his muse and confidant.
Walsh has a observe file in exploring the lives of artists and writers, with movies such because the 2014 Bafta-nominated work A Poet in New York, starring Tom Hollander as Dylan Thomas, and Maudie, starring Sally Hawkins as Canadian folks artist Maud Lewis, reverse Ethan Hawke as her husband.
Her different function credit embrace Joyriders and Tune for A Raggy Boy, whereas extra lately she made BBC-backed TV dramas Miss Austen, the critically acclaimed adaptation of Gill Hornby’s novel, and Elizabeth is Lacking, for which Glenda Jackson gained a Finest Main Actress Bafta.
Casting is by Amy Kate Dolan (The Pope’s Exorcist, Juliet and Romeo, Costiera). The movie is developed and produced by John Kelleher Media and EZ Movies (Eire) with the help of Display Eire.
