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EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton, who precocious starred pinch Daniel Day-Lewis successful Anemone and successful Starz bid The Serpent Queen, is group to header rescue thriller Love And War.
Alliance Media Partners (AMP) is launching world income authorities to nan characteristic up of adjacent month’s Cannes market.
Pic is to beryllium directed by Lisa Mulcahy (Lies We Tell), written by Lisa Mulcahy and Elisabeth Gooch, and produced by Michael Garland (Death of a Superhero).
Inspired by a existent story, nan movie is astir a mother forced to participate war-torn Syria to retrieve her young girl aft nan kid is taken crossed borders by her estranged husband. “Alone and retired of her depth, she must navigate shifting alliances, bureaucracy and changeless danger, arsenic nan model to prevention her kid originates to close.” Start day has yet to beryllium group pinch financing underway.
Samantha Morton said: “The film Love And War is an unthinkable testament to a mother’s love, and to what a mother is tin of doing to prevention her kid contempt bonzer circumstances. I was moved beyond words upon reading.”
Producer Michael Garland commented: “I’m thrilled to beryllium moving pinch nan mixed talents of Samantha and Lisa connected this important and thrilling film. The prize of moving pinch nan group astatine AMP adds hugely to nan imaginable of nan task – they are 100% pinch nan filmmakers each nan measurement and we person a agreed imagination – to present a gut-wrenching thriller underpinned by a profoundly moving and heart-wrenching narrative.”
Anthony Buckner, AMP’s Head of Sales and Acquisitions, added: “From nan infinitesimal you meet Sarah, nan hostility takes clasp and ne'er lets up arsenic she is drawn deeper into a war-torn scenery connected an almost intolerable ngo to prevention her daughter. This is simply a gripping and profoundly quality thriller rooted successful a singular existent story. Samantha Morton is nan cleanable character to transportation it, and I can’t hold to stock it pinch world buyers astatine Cannes.”
