EXCLUSIVE: Filming is underway successful Arkansas connected Jeff Nichols’ Southern gothic King Snake, starring Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Drew Starkey (Queer), and Michael Shannon (Take Shelter).
The supernatural scary “follows a young mates (Qualley and Starkey) who inherit a workplace successful agrarian Arkansas and must conquer nan demons, some beingness and metaphysical, that haunt its legacy…forces of bully and evil collide successful a terrifying movie wherever real-world challenges clang headlong into different worldly creatures and myths.”
Loving and Mud filmmaker Nichols and his partners successful Tri-State Pictures, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Sarah Green, are producing successful relation pinch Range Media Partners. Conclave and Anora outfit FilmNation is financing and handling worldwide sales.
The task reunites FilmNation and Nichols pursuing their erstwhile collaboration on Mud and Take Shelter and is nan first movie to commencement accumulation under the company’s caller Chief Creative Officer, Stacey Snider.
Former 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks and Universal Pictures executive Snider said: “Jeff’s startling caller imagination of supernatural forces is arsenic bonzer arsenic it is enthralling, and we can’t hold for this unthinkable communicative to bewitch and captivate audiences astir nan world.”
Nichols added: “FilmNation has been an integral partner successful my career. My films person embraced genre successful nan past, but I dream to push this attack further with King Snake to create thing terrifying and beautiful. Making films is simply a privilege, and our squad is moving to create a portion of cinema worthy of FilmNation’s continued support.”
Upcoming FilmNation production releases see Olivia Wilde’s Sundance sensation The Invite and nan bid adjustment of Isabel Allende’s The House of nan Spirits for Prime Video.