EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-winner Aimee Lou Wooden (Intercourse Schooling), coming off a lauded flip in HBO’s The White Lotus S3, is about to star reverse Oscar winner Angelina Jolie in Marc Forster function adaptation of Anxious Individuals, the Black Bear and Hope Studios mission we instructed you about coming into the Cannes market.
A buzzy mission simply received buzzier. The synopsis reads: “The day earlier than Christmas Eve, funding banker Zara (Jolie) begrudgingly finds herself mingling with a gaggle 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 in accordance with plan. A movie a couple of crime that by no means passed off, 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 Known as Ove writer Fredrik Backman’s novel, the movie is being bought for worldwide at Cannes by Black Bear and WME Unbiased for home. The story has been tailored for the display by Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Magee, identified for motion pictures together with A Man Known as Otto, Lifetime of Pi, and Discovering Neverland.
The film will reunite a number of the key gamers behind the 2022 function adaptation of A Man Known as Otto ($110M world field workplace), additionally primarily based on Backman’s novel. Hope Studios’ Fredrik Wikström Nicastro (A Man Known as Otto) and Renée Wolfe (A Man Known as Otto) of 2DUX2 will produce, with A Man Known 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 places of work in Stockholm and London, develops, funds, produces, and sells worldwide movies and TV for the worldwide market. The agency has an general 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 Night time Home, an adaptation of grasp storyteller Jo Nesbø’s chilling novel of the identical title starring Aaron Paul, which is about to shoot this summer time in Álava, Spain. The studio can be establishing a function adaptation of Robin Sharma’s The Monk Who Offered 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, Unbiased Expertise Group and Slone, Supply.
