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EXCLUSIVE: Canada’s first ever film, Evangeline (1914), is nan inspiration for a caller characteristic of nan aforesaid sanction heralding from accumulation institution Ocean Playground Productions.
Based connected Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, nan communicative of silent movie Evangeline centers connected nan 1755 expulsion of nan Acadians, and follows a young female separated from her fiancé during nan deportation from Nova Scotia and her decades-long travel crossed North America to find him. It spans Atlantic Canada, nan American colonies and Louisiana, tracing nan migration that would yet springiness emergence to Cajun culture.
The well-received original began filming successful Nova Scotia successful 1912 and is wide cited arsenic Canada’s first feature-length melodramatic movie but is now considered lost. William Cavanaugh, who worked for Pathe Freres, and Edward P. Sullivan, who worked for Edison Studios, directed nan film.
The caller movie is being developed by shaper Brent Crowell, who antecedently served arsenic a co-producer and head connected TV bid The Flash, a head and shaper connected CW-distributed Sight Unseen, and arsenic shaper connected Netflix’s Emmy-nominated family movie Lost Ollie (Netflix). The longtime first and 2nd AD has besides worked connected films including Scary Movie and bid Fear The Walking Dead. Ocean Playground’s first characteristic was Traveling astatine nan Speed of Life.
The caller adjustment is being developed arsenic a “large-scale play production” and arsenic an world co-production.
The poem Evangeline inspired aggregate silent films, including different mislaid feature, nan 1919 American movie of nan aforesaid sanction produced and distributed by Fox and directed by Raoul Walsh.
Crowell is repped by Innovative Artists.
