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EXCLUSIVE: Matt Smith (House Of The Dragon) and Imogen Poots (Chronology Of Water) are attached to prima successful mystery-thriller The Salamander Lives Twice, which Embankment Films has boarded for income up of nan Cannes market.
House Of The Dragon and Doctor Who Smith will play a “debonair alien who washes ashore connected a distant land wearing a Rolex and holding an briefcase he can’t open, pinch nary representation of who he is aliases why he is there. Taken successful by nan sole inhabitants – Iris, a glamorous wine-soaked matriarch, her erudite girl Goggy (Poots) and Baby, their elephantine naked butler – he is drawn into their bizarre and decaying world. But this is nary accident. And what originates arsenic sanctuary turns into thing acold stranger, acold darker – a world of pent-up revenge, sinister family betrayal and shocking violence”.
The movie reunites writer Toby Harvard and head Ant Timpson for their 3rd task aft Bookworm and Come to Daddy. Additional casting is successful process.
Producers are Emma Slade and Roxi Bull for Velvet Moss (Come to Daddy) and Andy Starke (Possessor) for Anti-Worlds. The squad is eyeing a February 2027 sprout “on a distant island”.
Embankment’s Archie Faulks described nan movie arsenic “a wildly entertaining Hitchcockian thriller served up connected a gourmet platter of absurdist drama and psychological suspense. It keeps audiences guessing correct up to an ending they won’t spot coming and won’t forget.”
A type of nan book was announced pre-pandemic but it now has caller impetus pinch different cast, producers and seller.
