3 weeks ago
EXCLUSVE: Sarah Gadon (Alias Grace), Tom Hughes (Victoria), Robert Kazinsky (Pacific Rim), and Tamer Hassan (Layer Cake) person been group to lead Iron Ribbon, a UK independent characteristic based connected nan existent communicative of Polish character Stanisława “Stasia” Umińska, whose 1920s Paris proceedings became a landmark crime-of-passion case.
Gadon will play Stanisława “Stasia” Umińska, “an eager character astatine nan halfway of a sensational lawsuit that gripped Paris aft she was accused of sidesplitting her lover, creator Jan Zyznowski — and yet acquitted successful what became 1 of nan earliest high-profile “mercy killing” trials.
Hughes will represent Zyznowski, pinch Kazinsky playing Donat Guigne (The Prosecutor), Hassan group arsenic Arnold Szyfman, and Lee Knight (Hamlet) will represent Tuwim.
Written by Adam Howes (Foxhole) and owed to beryllium directed by Jarek Marszewski (Bikini Blue), pinch cinematography by Michał Sobociński (Chopin! Chopin!), nan movie is group against nan backdrop of Jazz Age Paris.
The movie is being produced by Daniella Gonella’s DG Productions, pinch main photography aimed for precocious 2026. Producers are Gonella, Lee Thomas, Jay Michaelson and Rosa Russo. The task is presently successful pre-production pinch nan producers and character Hassan group to be nan Cannes marketplace wherever they’ll beryllium discussing it pinch imaginable partners.
Crew will see Oscar- and BAFTA-winning sound designer Glenn Freemantle (Gravity) and BAFTA-nominated editor John Wilson (Billy Elliot). Composer Edmund Butt (Yellowstone) is attached, alongside storyboard creator Temple Clark (Gravity), location head Elliott Meddings (Skyfall), and accumulation lawyer Richard Moxon (The Queen).
