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EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a nosy 1 fitting for nan Cannes market. McKenna Grace (Regretting You), Paul Walter Hauser (The Naked Gun) and Louis Partridge (Enola Holmes) person been group to prima successful revisionist rom-com The Official Mistress astir nan last days of nan French monarchy.
Matt Brown (The Man Who Knew Infinity) is owed to nonstop from his ain book astir King Louis XVI (Walter Hauser) – nan Last King of France – and his pursuit of Comtesse Madeleine de Vascone (Grace) arsenic La Maîtresse-en-Titre aka nan Official Mistress successful bid to quell suggestions of impotence by state and court… and nan humble, lowly navigator Rene Rennault (Partridge) who risks treason to go nan King’s Taster successful an effort to prevention his first love, Madeleine.
The producers are presently astatine activity casting nan 4th cardinal domiciled of Marie Antoinette, alongside nan wider ensemble, including nan roles of De Conte, D’Artois, Jacques and Luc.
Producers are Oscar nominee Brunson Green (Regretting You, The Help) for Harbinger Pictures, Laura Rister (Margin Call) of Esme Grace, Matt Brown and Berlin-based Laura Bull (Culpa) of ReadyMade Films.
Production is presently group for September, 2026 successful Europe. North.Five.Six is launching world income astatine nan Cannes market. Michael Rothstein, Samuel Hall, and Warren Goz will exec-produce for North.Five.Six.
The producers picture nan “female-oriented” task arsenic “opulent, erotic, dangerous, and wickedly fun” combining tones of Wuthering Heights, Shakespeare successful Love, and Dangerous Liaisons.
Paul Walter Hauser said: “I could not beryllium much excited to play King Louis XVI. Matt Brown has written a screenplay that honors nan humanities quality of Louis’ waning governmental favour and arguable marriage, while weaving a charming communicative chockfull of levity, romance, and colorful characters. It’s a communicative that dares to look death, for a chance astatine life’s top gift: love”
Matt Brown added: “Set against a tumultuous play successful history not wholly dissimilar to our own, The Official Mistress embraces love, food, sensuality, joke and gyration successful adjacent measure. I’ve agelong wanted to show an upstairs-downstairs story, and location is nary much utmost world to group it than nan ridiculous decadence of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’s tribunal — to play irreverently pinch history while telling a profoundly quality communicative astatine its core. Beneath nan spectacle lies a communicative astir longing, ambition, relationship and nan courageousness to situation a surgery system. I could not inquire for much inspiring collaborators than Paul Walter Hauser, Mckenna Grace, Louis Partridge, and nan exceptional producers Brunson Green and Laura Rister arsenic we bring this eager and richly cinematic world to life.”
Brown is repped by Artists First, and Schreck Rose. Grace is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, CAA, and Hansen, Jacobsen. Partridge is repped by Independent Talent Group and WME. Hauser is repped by Artists First, WME, and Schreck Rose.
