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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a basking one. Two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo (Disclosure Day), Golden Globe nominee Nicholas Hoult (Superman), Hamnet and A Quiet Place prima Noah Jupe, and Golden Globe victor Emma Corrin (The Crown) are group to prima successful transgressive psychological thriller The Servant.
This is nan adjacent task for Ammonite and God’s Own Country writer-director Francis Lee and All Of Us Strangers and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri outfit Blueprint Pictures. Anatomy Of A Fall and Sentimental Value outfit Mk2 is dropping nan task into nan Cannes marketplace wherever it’s handling world sales. Poor Things and The Zone Of Interest outfit Film4 is besides aboard.
The Servant is simply a psychological thriller group successful 1950’s New York, “about Tony (Hoult), an entitled British man who moves into a beautiful flat connected Central Park and becomes embroiled successful a wicked powerfulness play pinch his manservant, Barrett (Domingo).”
The task is simply a reimagining of nan subversive 1963 Joseph Losey classical of nan aforesaid sanction pinch a screenplay by Harold Pinter. That movie crackled pinch undertones of class, sexuality and politics, pinch Dirk Bogarde playing nan sociopathic manservant to acclaim. Bong Joon-Ho has cited nan movie arsenic a cardinal inspiration for his Oscar victor Parasite. Lee’s update of nan communicative is understood to crackle pinch its ain intersexual cat-and-mouse games and modern dynamics.
Principal photography is owed to commence January 2027. Director Lee’s first 2 films played astatine Sundance and TIFF but this is his first successful six years.
Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin nutrient for Blueprint. Blueprint’s Ben Knight and Diarmuid McKeown executive-produce. Farhana Bhula exec-produces for Film4.
Domingo will adjacent beryllium seen successful Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. Jupe is presently starring pinch successful Romeo And Juliet alongside Sadie Sink astatine The Harold Pinter Theatre successful London’s West End. Hoult and Corrin some precocious starred successful Nosferatu and nan second leads Netflix’s upcoming Pride And Prejudice series. Hoult stars arsenic Lex Luther successful nan caller Superman movies.
Mk2 has eleven films astatine this year’s Cannes festival, including Competition titles Gentle Monster (Marie Kreutzer), The Birthday Party (Léa Mysius), Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev), The Man I Love (Ira Sachs), and Nagi Notes (Koji Fukada).
Francis Lee commented: “I americium delighted to beryllium moving pinch my unthinkable formed connected The Servant, an exciting, vulnerable and nosy retelling pinch a modern viewpoint of nan classical film. Although this thrilling communicative is group successful 1950’s New York, its themes consciousness much timely than ever, and I can’t hold for audiences to observe this movie done caller eyes.”
Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin of Blueprint Pictures expanded: “We are fortunate to person nan opportunity to activity pinch Francis connected this very typical film. We person agelong been awesome admirers of his activity and it is nary astonishment that his razor crisp book has attracted specified an unthinkable cast.”
Francis Lee is represented by CAA and Knight Hall Agency. Colman Domingo is represented by WME, Liebman Entertainment and Schreck Rose. Emma Corrin is represented by Insight Management & Production, Circle M+P, WME, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer. Noah Jupe is represented by WME, Brillstein, and Hansen, Jacobson.
