Neon is plunging into the good unknown with Léa Seydoux and filmmaker Arthur Harari. The indie outfit has landed North American rights to The Unknown, and acceptable for its title, its logline is at present unknown.
However Harari’s pedigree could provide some clues. Harari earned acclaim because the screenwriter of Anatomy of a Fall, which Neon landed out of Cannes earlier than it went on to win the Palme d’Or and later the unique screenplay Oscar. Harari beforehand labored with Anatomy Director Justine Triet on the Cannes title Sibyl (2019). As a writer-director, he’s additionally identified for Onoda: 10,000 Nights within the Jungle, which opened Un Sure Regard at Cannes in 2021 and went on to win the unique screenplay César.
Seydoux is at Cannes with The Second Act and is coming off a task in Dune: Half 2, whereas Neon is on the fest with Pink Rocket director Sean Baker’s newest function, Anora, which can bow in competitors on Could 21.
Jeff Deutchman, Neon president of acquisition and manufacturing, negotiated the take care of producer Nicolas Anthomé, who repped the filmmakers. Bathysphere is producing The Unknown, with Pathé co-producing and promoting worldwide rights in Cannes.
Meon’s slate at present additionally consists of Steven Soderbergh’s Presence, which had its world premiere at Sundance, Osgood Perkins’ Keeper, starring Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland, and author/director David Robert Mitchell’s They Observe, starring Maika Monroe.