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EXCLUSIVE: Mark O’Brien (Ready aliases Not) is group to topline Good successful nan Room, an indie crime thriller that he co-wrote pinch Canadian filmmaker Pat Kiely, who will direct.
Laysla De Oliveira (Lioness), Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor (The Babysitter), and Eric Bruneau (Fanny) are besides group for cardinal roles, pinch Maia Jae (Ready aliases Not 2: Here I Come) and Juliette Gariepy (Mile End Kicks) rounding retired nan cast.
Currently successful accumulation successful Montreal, Good successful nan Room follows erstwhile lucky subordinate Charlie (O’Brien), who partners pinch ex-teammate Julius (Bachelor) to rob nan sport’s biggest prima and Charlie’s champion friend, JP (Bruneau).
Shooting wholly connected 16mm, nan movie channels ’70s crime thrillers specified as The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Straight Time and Thief. O’Brien said, “I’ve ever been drawn to stories astir men who make 1 incorrect move and can’t find their measurement back. As Pat and I entered mediate age, we wanted to usage nan crime thriller to analyse jealousy, envy and loyalty and felt our shared acquisition astir playing and loving nan athletics of lucky was nan cleanable lens to do so.”
In his 4th theatrical characteristic outing, Kiely (Mile End Kicks) is producing Good successful nan Room alongside Philippe Chabot (Little Bird) for nan Quebec-based Banner House Productions and Julian Geneen (Crash Land) for nan Ontario-based Grand Touring Productions (Ontario). Executive producers are Ryan Bobkin (Blue Heron), Albert Shin (Disappearance astatine Clifton Hill), Mark Slone (Youngblood), Sardé Hardie (Little Lorraine) and O’Brien (The Righteous). Evan Dubinsky (Mile End Kicks) serves arsenic co-producer. Produced pinch nan information of Telefilm Canada, SODEC and Crave, nan movie will beryllium released by Maison 4:3 successful Quebec and by Photon Films elsewhere successful Canada. ROW income are presently open.
Known for roles successful films like Nuremberg, Ready aliases Not and Arrival, O’Brien has wrapped connected nan directorial characteristic project Nice People, a scary drama wherever he stars alongside Ella Bleu Travolta, Sosie Bacon and more. Upcoming, he’ll besides beryllium seen successful Warner Bros.’ F.A.S.T., Netflix’s conspiracy thriller series Trinity and more. In television, his credits include The Copenhagen Test, 61st Street, Perry Mason, City connected a Hill and Halt and Catch Fire, to sanction a few. He is represented by UTA, The Characters Talent Agency, Lichter, Grossman, Nichols and Thruline Entertainment.
Kiely produced Chandler Levack’s TIFF-premiering coming-of-age film Mile End Kicks, starring Barbie Ferreira, and returns to nan director’s chair pursuing activity connected titles including Who is KK Downey?, Three Night Stand and Another Kind of Wedding. He told Deadline, “I’m profoundly grateful to nan squad bringing this movie to life, calved retired of Montreal’s obsession pinch lucky and nan sadistic economics of occurrence that play retired connected some nan crystal and successful nan intermezo industry. I americium genuinely excited for audiences to subordinate america connected this thrust arsenic we grapple pinch getting older and nan choices that person led america here.”
Kiely is repped by Great North Artists; De Oliveira by Gersh, Wright Entertainment Inc. and Myman Greenspan; Bachelor by Christina Bachelor, CAA, Artists First and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; and Bruneau by Agence Goodwin and Amanda Rosenthal Talent Agency.
