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EXCLUSIVE: Poker Face and Russian Doll star Natasha Lyonne is group to nutrient endurance thriller Red Sea for Saudi filmmaker Lina Malaika.
Heralding from nan latter’s NISR Films and Lyonne’s Animal Pictures and Ariadne banners, nan movie is group against nan backdrop of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea and “follows a group of young friends aboard a luxury yacht whose carefree flight spirals into a nightmare aft a bid of unexpected events leaves them stranded acold from shore.”
According to nan synopsis, “as isolation, fear, and paranoia statesman to unravel nan group, they observe they are not unsocial beneath nan surface.” Screenplay comes from Heaven Howard and Brooke Schlegel. Start of sprout has yet to beryllium group pinch nan squad presently successful development, casting and backing mode.
“Growing up by nan Red Sea, I was ever fascinated by its beauty, mythology, and depth. There is thing some belief and terrifying astir it astatine nan aforesaid time,” said head Malaika.
She continued: “With Red Sea, we wanted to create a movie that feels immersive, cinematic, and emotionally claustrophobic. It is simply a endurance story, but it is besides astir fear, quality instinct, and what happens erstwhile paradise becomes a trap.”
Malaika is simply a New York Film Academy alum whose 2021 short movie Moskoon debuted astatine nan Red Sea Film Festival. She has worked connected characteristic documentary One Giant Leap, which chronicles nan communicative of nan first Saudi female astronaut, and arsenic an character is successful post-production connected Saudi scary They Came for Us.
Lyonne’s Animal Pictures develops and produces films and bid and is simply a shaper connected nan actress’s deed dramas Russian Doll and Poker Face. As we revealed, Lyonne precocious launched banner Ariadne pinch Sean Lennon and Evan Ross. Its debut task is nan transhumanism docuseries Vitruvian Scumbag.
