EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winners Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi are set to star in Kornél Mundruczó’s function drama Place to Be.
Written by Kata Wéber (Items Of A Girl, White God), Place to Be follows the unlikely friendship of an
aged girl [Burstyn] and middle-aged man [Waititi] as they journey from Chicago to New York to return a misplaced racing pigeon dwelling. The function will shoot at Disney Studios Australia in Sydney this month.
Hungarian-born Mundruczó is understood for his auteurial breakthrough movie, White God, and Venice Greatest Movie and Oscar-nominated Netflix function, Items Of A Girl.
Pic is produced by Jomon Thomas (Monkey Man, Lodge Mumbai), Megan Wynn (Collectively, Poker Face), and Alexander Rodnyansky (Loveless, Beanpole). EPs are Natalya Pavchinskaya (S’YA Idea), Stuart Manashil, Pankaj Mamtora (Lonestar Movies), Kanesh Mohana Sundaram (GVKM Elephant Footage), Ashley
Levinson, Sam Levinson, Viktoria Petranyi, David Edelstein and the late Kevin Turen.
Mundruczó stated, “I’ve all the time been within the true nature of coincidence. The best way sure unexpected encounters can become fateful occasions for us. Place To Be is in regards to the absurdity of how, over time, an individual turns into invisible in their very own life. However shedding visibility doesn’t essentially imply shedding oneself. In reality, it could lead us and people who meet us to a deeper understanding.”
After working together with her on Items Of A Girl, Mundruczó stated: “I had each need to direct the legendary Ellen Burstyn in a number one position, not solely as a result of I like her superb expertise, but in addition as a result of the time has lastly come to have a good time older girls on display screen. With the immensely gifted Taika Waititi, I hope I’ve discovered the right confederate for this thrilling journey.”
Burstyn stated: “It nonetheless surprises and delights me to be working at my age and I’m thrilled to be occurring this ‘highway journey’ with Taika and Kornel. To return to stunning Australia is a particular deal with certainly.”
Waititi added “That is not like any position I’ve ever completed and I’ve all the time adored Ellen’s work. All of us are simply navigating this bizarre journey of getting older and determining who the hell we’re alongside the way in which, so once I learn the script, I used to be deeply moved by Kata’s phrases and Kornel’s imaginative and prescient. Rising up in New Zealand, it was simply me and my mum—this tiny dynamic duo in opposition to the world. When this position got here alongside, I believed, ‘Oh my god, it’s like me and mum another time, besides we’ve each aged a number of a long time in a single day and Ellen will get to be the Thelma to my Louise.’ Although I’m nonetheless not solely positive which certainly one of us drives off the cliff on this state of affairs.”
WME Impartial is dealing with worldwide gross sales. Movie is supported by Display screen NSW Made in NSW fund.
Burstyn is represented by UTA and MGMT. Leisure. Waititi is represented by Handle-ment, CAA and Gail Cowan Administration. Kornél and Wéber repped by WME and NOVO.
