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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s an absorbing one. Two-time Oscar nominee Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), coming disconnected acclaimed play Train Dreams, is to play legendary writer Agatha Christie alongside César victor Vincent Cassel (La Haine) successful noir mystery-thriller Eleven Missing Days, which Fortitude International will present to buyers astatine this week’s Cannes market.
The movie is based connected nan existent communicative of nan British author’s mysterious disappearance. The synopsis reads: “In December 1926, astatine nan tallness of her fame, Agatha Christie became front-page news erstwhile she vanished successful bizarre circumstances from her home. In a lawsuit of life imitating art, this whodunnit explores nan investigation down her disappearance, strangely resembling an Agatha Christie caller itself wherever everyone successful her life became a suspect.”
Black Swan prima Cassel, who will adjacent prima successful The White Lotus S3, will play a retired Belgian constabulary detective who gets drawn into nan case, successful an echo of Christie’s astir celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot.
Christie’s disappearance made nationalist and world headlines. It captured nan public’s attraction pinch starring politicians and chap writers, including Arthur Conan Doyle, drawn into nan search. Speculation raged complete what had happened to nan writer and to this time location remains enigma pinch immoderate putting her disappearance down to representation nonaccomplishment arsenic a consequence of a car crash, and others pointing to nan imaginable of a ‘fugue’ state brought connected by trauma aliases depression.
Bertie Ellwood (Silo) is directing from a screenplay by Ernesto Foronda (Better Luck Tomorrow), based connected nan book Agatha Christie and nan Eleven Missing Days by Christie clever clever Jared Cade.
Nicole Elizabeth Berger (He’s Watching You) and Oliver Trevena (The Gorge) will besides co-star. More casting is expected to beryllium announced soon.
Currently successful pre-production, nan image is connected people to sprout this summertime successful nan UK. Range Media Partners is representing nan U.S. rights.
The film, which has softly been a decade successful nan works, is being produced by Serena Films’ Tatiana Kelly (The Catcher Was a Spy), Animus Films’ Jim Young (The Man Who Knew Infinity), Green Light Pictures’ Lucas Jarach (The Dreadful), Nadine de Barros of Fortitude International, Joshua Harris (We Bury nan Dead) of Peachtree Media Partners, and James Cunningham of Object & Animal.
Executive producers see Ford Corbett and Nathan Klingher for Gramercy Park Media. Landon Ash, Richie Walls, Brando Eaton, Jeff Rice, Jeff James, Nicole Mejia, Frank Walker, and Marc Gabizon besides service arsenic executive producers.
Jones is represented by Independent Talent Group, WME, and Peikoff Mahan. Cassel is represented by Range Media Partners, and Agence Adequat. Ellwood is represented by Verve Talent, Range Media Partners, and Nord Group.
