Oscar winners Helen Hunt and Dustin Hoffman have signed on to star within the new, still-untitled characteristic from British director Peter Greenaway (The Prepare dinner, The Thief, His Spouse and Her Lover).
Principal pictures for the movie has begun in Lucca, Italy.
Sofia Boutella (Kingsman), Giacomo Gianniotti (Gray’s Anatomy), Jonno Davies (Kingsman: The Secret Service), and Laura Morante (The Son’s Room) co-star within the drama, the primary characteristic from Greenaway since 2015’s Eisenstein in Guanajuato.
Based mostly on Greenaway’s authentic script, the movie is the story of an clever man whose last massive journey is meant to be his personal dying, which he needs to prepare in a sublime, wise and tidy method, with as few unfastened ends as attainable.
“The theme of this movie is extremely related and topical in these occasions, the place the end-of-life subject is headline information every day,” mentioned Greenaway. “As such, I’m very excited to be working with such an array of extraordinary actors and crew and private collaborators to carry this specific story to the massive display. With ironic provocation the movie is ready to noticeably ask if dying is important, and whether it is, ought to we not be obtainable to determine the place and when? And even how? If we really are going to die, shouldn’t we be concerned within the decision-making?”
Markus Barmettler and Philip Lee are producing for Going through East. The venture has been arrange with Jumpy Cow Footage and Italian companies firm The Household. Put up-production will likely be in completed within the Netherlands with Dutch producer Witfilm and in Belgium with Saga Movie.
Enrique Drescher, Daniel Fluri, Andres Kernen, Adrian Grabe, Saskia Boddeke, Ada Bonvini, Ivano Fucci and Marc Jacobson are government producers on the venture.
The 82-year-old Greenaway is a pioneering determine of British and worldwide art-house cinema. Alongside 1989’s The Prepare dinner, The Thief, His Spouse and Her Lover starring Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon, his best-known works embrace Drowning by Numbers (1988), The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) and Prospero’s Books (1991). In 2014 he was honored with a BAFTA lifetime achievement award for excellent British contribution to cinema.
Dustin Hoffman is represented by Tavistock Wooden Administration and WME; Helen Hunt by United Expertise Company; Sofia Boutella by Agence Adequat and CAA; Giacomo Gianniotti by Do MGMT, The Gersh Company, Thruline Leisure, Characters Expertise Company and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Royal, Shikora & Clark; Jonno Davies by Denton Brierly, ColorCreative, Gersh and GGSSC; Laura Morante by Alsira Garcia-Maroto Expertise Company and UBBA. Markus Barmettler and Philip Lee are represented by Marc Jacobson Legislation.