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Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman, Fantastic Four: First Steps) and Lewis Pullman (The Testament of Ann Lee, Thunderbolts*) will prima successful The Spacesuit, a characteristic written and directed by Kitty Green (The Assistant).
HanWay Films has boarded for sales, and UTA Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance will correspond nan pic successful North America.
HanWay noted nan movie comes astatine “at a infinitesimal of renewed world attraction connected abstraction exploration” pursuing nan caller Artemis II ngo to nan moon. Per nan synopsis, it follows an astronaut (Kirby), who is forced to make an intolerable determination aft an incident pinch her co-pilot (Pullman) leaves an indelible stain connected a ngo successful nan days starring up to assistance off, mounting disconnected a tense title against nan clock.
The pic reunites Green pinch producers James Schamus (The Wedding Banquet, Brokeback Mountain) and Scott Macaulay (Raising Victor Vargas, Saving Face), pinch Joe Pirro (We Grown Now, The Wedding Banquet), Rita Walsh (The Wolves Always Come astatine Night) and Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah, The Royal Hotel) besides producing. Vanessa Kirbyand& Juliet Kirby will executive nutrient via their accumulation company, Aluna.
Green is known for The Assistant, nan Julia Garner-starring characteristic astir intersexual harassment successful a movie accumulation institution that debuted astatine Sundance successful 2020. The Australian head followed that up pinch 2023’s The Royal Hotel, besides starring Ozark character Garner.
“We are thrilled to beryllium moving pinch Kitty Green again, whose brilliant is to return on utterly relatable situations women face, give them existent cinematic canvases and imbue them pinch unbearable hostility to provoke bigger conversations and entertain,” said Gabrielle Stewart, CEO of HanWay Films. “We cannot hold to beryllium taken connected this journey by Kitty pinch Vanessa Kirby and Lewis Pullman, and the fantabulous squad she has gathered.”
Kirby is represented by CAA successful nan U.S., Hamilton Hodell (UK), Linden Entertainment, and JSSK & Prosper. Pullman is represented by Anonymous Content, CAA and ID, and Green by UTA, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.
