Scarlett Johansson is easily one of the busiest actors these days so it comes as no surprise that she is now in early talks to star in the Focus Features drama Reflective Light.
Variety reports that Gregory Crewdson, an art photographer, is making his directing debut on the adaptation of the 2014 Carla Buckley novel The Deepest Secret.
The story is about a teenage boy who suffers from an ailment that makes him gravely allergic to sunlight. If Johansson’s deal goes through, she would play the boy's mother, so devoted to her son’s care that she alienates the rest of their family, creating a nocturnal lifestyle for him at the expense of her own well-being. When a neighborhood girl goes missing, everything begins to unravel.
Focus got the rights to the movie right before this year’s Cannes Film Festival and hopes to start production next year.
Johansson, can...
Variety reports that Gregory Crewdson, an art photographer, is making his directing debut on the adaptation of the 2014 Carla Buckley novel The Deepest Secret.
The story is about a teenage boy who suffers from an ailment that makes him gravely allergic to sunlight. If Johansson’s deal goes through, she would play the boy's mother, so devoted to her son’s care that she alienates the rest of their family, creating a nocturnal lifestyle for him at the expense of her own well-being. When a neighborhood girl goes missing, everything begins to unravel.
Focus got the rights to the movie right before this year’s Cannes Film Festival and hopes to start production next year.
Johansson, can...
- 10/27/2017
- by Kristian Odland
- GeekTyrant
Tony Sokol Oct 27, 2017
Focus Drama is talking with Scarlett Johansson to star in the movie adaptation of the novel The Deepest Secret
Scarlett Johansson is about to go to go dark, darker than the Black Widow. She's in talks to star in Focus Drama’s upcoming film Reflective Light. The film will mark the directorial debut of art photographer Gregory Crewdson, who wrote the screenplay with Juliane Hiam.
Reflective Light is an adaptation of the 2014 Carla Buckley novel The Deepest Secret, about a boy who is allergic to sunlight, and the mother who will do whatever she will to cover him with darkness.
“Eve Lattimore is barely keeping things together,” according to the official Penguin Random House synopsis.
“Her husband works fifteen hundred miles away, leaving Eve to juggle singlehandedly the demands of their teenaged daughter and fragile son. Tyler was born with Xp—the so-called vampire disease: even one...
Focus Drama is talking with Scarlett Johansson to star in the movie adaptation of the novel The Deepest Secret
Scarlett Johansson is about to go to go dark, darker than the Black Widow. She's in talks to star in Focus Drama’s upcoming film Reflective Light. The film will mark the directorial debut of art photographer Gregory Crewdson, who wrote the screenplay with Juliane Hiam.
Reflective Light is an adaptation of the 2014 Carla Buckley novel The Deepest Secret, about a boy who is allergic to sunlight, and the mother who will do whatever she will to cover him with darkness.
“Eve Lattimore is barely keeping things together,” according to the official Penguin Random House synopsis.
“Her husband works fifteen hundred miles away, leaving Eve to juggle singlehandedly the demands of their teenaged daughter and fragile son. Tyler was born with Xp—the so-called vampire disease: even one...
- 10/26/2017
- Den of Geek
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– IFC Films has acquired the U.S rights to director Jamie M. Dagg’s thriller “Sweet Virginia,” starring Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogen Poots, Rosemarie DeWitt and Odessa Young. The film, which premiered at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, was written by Ben and Paul China from their Black List script, and was produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones for Automatik, Chris Ferguson for Oddfellows and Fernando Loureiro and Roberto Vasconcellos for Exhibit, who also financed.
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Xyz Films is currently handling international sales and will screen the film at the upcoming Marché du Film at Cannes. “Sweet Virginia” is a riveting thriller that...
– IFC Films has acquired the U.S rights to director Jamie M. Dagg’s thriller “Sweet Virginia,” starring Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogen Poots, Rosemarie DeWitt and Odessa Young. The film, which premiered at the recent Tribeca Film Festival, was written by Ben and Paul China from their Black List script, and was produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones for Automatik, Chris Ferguson for Oddfellows and Fernando Loureiro and Roberto Vasconcellos for Exhibit, who also financed.
Read More: Film Acquisition Rundown: Focus Features Picks Up ‘Tully,’ Electric Entertainment Buys ‘Lbj’ and More
Xyz Films is currently handling international sales and will screen the film at the upcoming Marché du Film at Cannes. “Sweet Virginia” is a riveting thriller that...
- 5/12/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Focus Features has acquired Reflective Light, clearing the way for celebrated art photographer Gregory Crewdson to make his feature directorial debut, with La La Land‘s Marc Platt producing with Platt Productions’ Jared LeBoff. The film is an adaptation of the 2014 Carla Buckley novel The Deepest Secret, which Crewdson and partner Juliane Hiam have adapted. Casting will begin shortly. A teenage boy suffers a malady that makes him gravely allergic to sunlight…...
- 5/8/2017
- Deadline
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