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Academy Award victor Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) and Academy Award nominee Paul Mescal (Hamnet) are reuniting in Hold On To Your Angels, written and to beryllium directed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Benh Zeitlin (Beasts Of The Southern Wild).
Plan B (Moonlight) will nutrient pinch Alex Coco (Anora) nether his Rapt Film banner. The Veterans is handling world sales, pinch home distribution authorities represented by CAA Media Finance.
The basking task will beryllium introduced to buyers astatine this month’s Cannes Marché. Production is group to statesman successful February.
Set connected nan separator of South Louisiana, Hold On To Your Angels “follows a hell-bound outlaw (Mescal) and a ferocious shepherd of mislaid souls (Buckley) who autumn successful catastrophic emotion arsenic their crumbling bayou paradise drags them under.”
“Hold On To Your Angels is nan astir intolerable emotion communicative I’ve ever witnessed — an outlaw romance for nan extremity of America, group connected nan crumbling separator of South Louisiana. I’ve been dreaming of telling it since its hero, Pam Harper, walked into an audition for Beasts of nan Southern Wild seventeen years ago. It’s a emotion missive to an endangered measurement of life — and a rallying outcry for empathy crossed a fractured planet”, said Zeitlin.’
“Benh Zeitlin perfectly stunned america and nan world astatine ample pinch nan cosmic sorcery of Beasts Of The Southern Wild. With Hold On To Your Angels, Benh has group his powerful operation of aggravated realism, myth, and magic against nan ample standard of an epic emotion story. This is simply a writer/director pinch a imagination for nan ages and we could not beryllium much proud to beryllium by his broadside to make this movie pinch Jessie and Paul,” added Plan B.
“After years of moving pinch filmmakers that research nan overlooked corners of our world, I tin admit Benh Zeitlin arsenic a filmmaker pinch that uncommon gift: nan expertise to uncover profound beauty and humanity successful parts of America that seldom find their measurement onto nan metallic screen,” commented Coco.
Buckley is represented by CAA, United Agents, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; Mescal by CAA and Curtis Brown Group; Zeitlin by CAA and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Rogal, Shikora & Clark.
