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Variety is reporting that Ellen Page and Morgan star Kate Mara have closed deals to headline Mercy, a new romantic drama from Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom Ezer.

In what will be their first on-screen collaboration – Page and Mara have worked together on comedy sketches including Funny or Die’s hilarious Tiny Detectives – we understand the pair will find themselves butting heads in Ezer’s feature, with Page attached to the role of Lucy, the daughter of a shunned man on death row. Mara, meanwhile, will portray the title character who hails from the opposite end of the political cause. Sparks inevitably fly as Lucy begins to call her troubled father-daughter relationship into question.

Also starring Amy Seimetz, Pablo Schreiber and Elias Koteas, production on Mercy is expected to get underway in Cincinnati next month, lending Tali Shalom Ezer and Co. ample time to align the romantic picture for next year’s festival circuit.

Like Crazy and Equals director Drake Doremus has found leads for his currently-untitled next project, described as a unique love story. THR reports Charlie Hunnam and Lea Séydoux have joined the film, assumedly as the central focus of the story, which is penned by Rich Greenberg. It will be produced by Scott Free Productions, Ridley Scott’s production studio that worked on Equals. Hunnam can next be seen in James Gray’s The Lost City of Z along with King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which is an update by director Guy Ritchie on the classic legend. Séydoux, who won best actress at Cannes for Blue is the Warmest Color, can be seen most recently in The Lobster.

In other news, Variety reports Ellen Page and Kate Mara have been cast to star in Princess director Tali Shalom-Ezer‘s latest film, a romantic drama titled Mercy. The film is penned by Joe Barton,...