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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once), Oscar nominee Guy Pearce (The Brutalist) and Emmy victor Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso) person been group to topline crime-thriller The Teller.
Ben Ripley’s directorial debut, from his ain script, is being described by producers arsenic successful nan vein of The Usual Suspects and The Town.
Altitude is handling world income and will present nan task to buyers successful Cannes. CAA Media Finance and Verve Ventures will grip home rights.
Set successful San Francisco, nan movie “will show nan communicative of Violet, an overlooked slope teller whose life takes a move erstwhile a rogue FBI supplier manipulates her into robbing her ain bank, but nan heist is conscionable nan opening move successful a overmuch bigger con.”
Ripley is champion known for nan sci-fi action-thriller Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Duncan Jones. That movie was conceived arsenic an original spec book that Ripley wrote. Additional credits see Niels Arden Oplev’s Flatliners, Francois Girard’s Boychoir and Justin Lin’s Last Days.
Pic will beryllium produced by Martin Brennan (Worldbreaker) for Teller Films UK alongside Jessica Malanaphy (Look Both Ways) and Samantha Shear (Shades Of Ray).
A UK-Irish co-production, nan task is aiming for a precocious autumn sprout successful Northern Ireland, pinch post-production successful nan Republic of Ireland.
Stephanie Hsu is represented by CAA, and Ziffren Brittenham LLP. Guy Pearce is represented by CAA, Independent Talent, Shanahan Management, and Sloane, Offer. Hannah Waddingham is represented by CAA, Atlas Artists, and Jackoway Austen. Ben Ripley is represented by Verve Ventures, Brillstein, and Stankevich Law. Jessica Malanaphy is represented by Verve.
