2 weeks ago
EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has acquired UK & Irish authorities to Asa Butterfield thriller Our Hero, Balthazar from Visit Films.
Butterfield (Sex Education), stars pinch Jaeden Martell (Knives Out), Jennifer Ehle (The King’s Speech), Noah Centineo (To All The Boys…) and Chris Bauer (Thunderbolts).
Producers see Oscar Boyson (Uncut Gems), Ricky Camilleri, David Duque Estrada (Reality), Alex Hughes (How to Blow up a Pipeline), Jaeden Martell and Jon Wroblewski (Osiris).
Premiering astatine Tribeca past year, Our Hero, Balthazar is written and directed by Oscar Boyson successful his directorial debut. The movie is besides written by Ricky Camilleri.
The acheronian satire follows “Balthazar (Martell), a able New York teen who, eager to impressment his crush astatine school, follows an online troll (Butterfield) to Texas, convinced that he tin extremity an enactment of utmost violence. What originates arsenic a misguided hero’s travel evolves into a analyzable brushwood betwixt 2 young men from vastly different worlds successful divided America.”
The woody was negotiated betwixt Signature Entertainment’s Acquisitions & Development Executive, Max Hart and Visit Films’ President, Ryan Kampe.
Signature’s Max Hart said: “Our Hero, Balthazar is simply a sharp, darkly comic and provocative thriller – a frenetic and prescient image of Gen Z alienation that grips from commencement to decorativeness pinch standout performances and relentless momentum. We can’t hold to bring nan movie to audiences successful nan UK & Ireland.”
Director Oscar Boyson added: “We couldn’t beryllium happier that Signature Entertainment is bringing Our Hero, Balthazar to movies fans successful nan UK. We made this movie for nan audience, and we cognize that pinch Signature we’ll beryllium capable to scope nan widest number of group and stock nan aforesaid acquisition pinch them that moviegoers person been responding truthful wildly to present successful nan US.”
