EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe-winning The Bear star Jeremy Allen White, Mandy Patinkin (Homeland) and Oscar nominee Isabella Rossellini (Conclave) are set to star in Jeremiah Zagar’s upcoming feature The Painted Bride.
Frequent collaborators Charades and New Europe have acquired international rights to the movie and will launch sales at Cannes. WME Independent will represent North American rights.
Zagar gained critical acclaim for his Sundance debut We The Animals (a five-time Independent Spirit Award nominee), followed by the Netflix hit Hustle, starring Adam Sandler. He recently wrapped Task for HBO, starring Mark Ruffalo. The series will premiere later this year.
The Painted Bride stars Allen White as Elisha, a man who during the day swims, cooks and cares for his family, and at night, obsesses over a new project dedicated to his young son and his dying father. When a crisis draws him back home to Baltimore, his world begins to collapse, expand, regress and explode all around him.
The Painted Bride will blend live action with an innovative approach to stop-motion animation.
Zagar describes the film as “a story about masculinity and what we pass on to our children. It is about blood, art, duty, family and love. Above all, it is about love.”
The film is produced by Jeremy Yaches for Public Record (We The Animals, In a Dream, Hustle), Paul Mezey and Andrew Goldman for Present Company (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Beasts Of The Southern Wild, After Yang, We The Animals) and Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska for Madants (Lamb, High Life, The Silent Twins).
The film was developed in association with Fit Via Vi Productions and will be financed with support from In The Cut Productions, Big Love Studios and AF Creative Media. Daniel Ginsberg, James Bruce, and Brian & Dayna Lee will Executive Produce.
“I’ve been following Jeremiah’s career for years, he’s an immensely talented director and his movies are rich and full of real emotions. We are very happy to join him and his team on this journey, alongside great partners and cast.” said New Europe Film Sales’ CEO, Jan Naszewski on behalf of the sales companies.
Jeremy Allen White is represented by WME, Entertainment 360, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox, Mandy Patinkin is represented by CAA and Echo Lake Management, Isabella Rossellini is represented by UTA.
