EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Truong (The Sympathizer) and Jack McEvoy (Vikings) are main a romantic drama with sci-fi beats from British director Coz Greenop.
The Final Memaid just lately wrapped capturing in Vietnam and The Final Heist director Greenop is in Cannes this week promoting worldwide rights to the indie pic.
Greenop, who additionally directed Darkish Beacon and Home Pink, produces alongside Christina de la Sala (Tomorrow) and Donny Chen (Cookster: The Darkest Days). Mont Fort Movies produces in affiliation with Greenop’s Inexperienced 13 Movies.
The pic was shot fully in Vietnam with “substantial” help from the Vietnamese Movie Fee, in accordance with the producers.
Primarily based on Greenop’s script, the romantic drama tells the story of Aron (McEvoy), a younger grieving author touring round Vietnam, who sparks up a romance with a girl (Truong) harboring a darkish and primordial secret.
“Taking pictures this movie in Vietnam was concurrently essentially the most breathtakingly stunning expertise and essentially the most bodily taxing venture I’ve ever accomplished,” mentioned Greenop. “Working with two actors like Jack and Jessica was a sheer pleasure.”
The L.A.-based Truong, a former Miss Vietnam, had a recurring position in A24 and HBO miniseries The Sympathizer. She has additionally acted in Learn how to Battle in Six Inch Heels and Wifey, The place Are You?. McEvoy, a singer and actor, is finest recognized for his position in Historical past drama Vikings and has appeared within the likes of It All Comes With the Chilly Water, which is one other Greenop movie; Jane Spencer’s South of Hope Road and Thomas Beatty’s Caledonia.
Greenop’s London crime drama The Final Heist gained him Greatest Director on the Marbella Worldwide Movie Competition.
He’s managed by Larry Robinson at London- and L.A.-based administration and manufacturing firm Avatar Leisure. McEvoy is repped by Insurgent Administration, Alta World Media and Model In Movement. Troung is repped by Picture Powerhouse Company and Alta World Media.
