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Christopher Andrews (Bring Them Down) is directing nan thriller Cavendish and has recruited Sophie Thatcher (Heretic), Erin Kellyman (28 Years Later: The Bone Temple), and Joe Alwyn to prima successful nan feature.
Cornerstone will grip world income and distribution and will motorboat income astatine Cannes. CAA Media Finance is handling domestic.
Cavendish is produced by Ivana MacKinnon and Emily Leo (How to Have Sex) from Wild Swim Films together pinch January Films’ Rosa Attab and Jacqueline De Croy (You Were Never Really Here) alongside Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska and Bogna Szewczyk-Skupien (The Brutalist) from nan Polish accumulation institution Madants.
The movie was developed successful collaboration pinch BBC Film and besides received backing from nan Polish Film Institute’s rate rebate program. Production is group to statesman successful Poland successful September.
The film’s synopsis reads: 1645: Accused of witchcraft connected her wedding day, a privileged young bride (Thatcher) is pursued by a ruthless witch huntsman (Alwyn). Forced into an uneasy confederation pinch a sharp-witted poacher surviving connected nan margins of nine (Kellyman), nan 2 women conflict back, turning their powerlessness into spot done violence, wit, and defiance.
Andrews is champion known for his debut feature, Bring Them Down, which premiered astatine TIFF successful 2024. The movie stars Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott. It won nan Douglas Hickox Award for Outstanding Debut Director astatine nan 2024 British Independent Film Awards.
