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EXCLUSIVE: Britt Lower (Severance), Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value), and Selton Mello (I’m Still Here) are group to prima successful Michael Almereyda’s upcoming characteristic Zero K, joining antecedently announced formed members Caleb Landry Jones and Peter Sarsgaard.
Based connected Don DeLillo’s caller of nan aforesaid name, Zero K centers connected a tech billionaire (Sarsgaard) preparing his dying woman (Ibsdotter) for cryonic preservation successful an precocious aesculapian installation while his estranged boy (Jones) searches for stableness pinch a female raising a young boy (Lower).
The melodramatic sci-fi premise shows them toggling betwixt worlds — weighing religion successful nan coming against nan committedness of an engineered afterlife. Production is presently underway successful São Paulo, Brazil.
An RT Features, Keep Your Head, and Oak Street Pictures production, nan movie is produced by Anthony Katagas, RT Feature’s Rodrigo Teixeira, Almereyda, and Renee Frigo. Executive Producers see Berta Marchiori, Marília Garske, and Glauco Urbim.
The announcement comes arsenic RT Features lands successful Cannes pinch Palme d’Or Contender Paper Tiger by James Gray, starring Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, and Miles Teller, and Dominga Sotomayor’s La Perra in Directors’ Fortnight.
Lower is champion known internationally for her capacity arsenic Helly R successful nan Apple TV bid Severance alongside Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, John Turturro, and Christopher Walken. Lilleaas was astir precocious seen successful nan Cannes Grand Prix and Oscar-winning drama Sentimental Value opposite Elle Fanning. Mello won world acclaim for his capacity successful Rubens Paiva successful Walter Salles’ Oscar-winning play I’m Still Here, connected which RT was a producer.
Mello is represented by Conway van Gelder Grant and TFC Management. Lower is represented by UTA and Ames Hashagen Entertainment. Lilleaas is represented by CAA, Team Players and Curtis Brown Group.
