EXCLUSIVE: Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings) and Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina) have joined Kate and Rooney Mara in Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard, which wrapped filming in Europe this previous weekend.
Marking the primary time the Mara sisters have appeared on display collectively, the movie charts the story of Jean and Joan Holbrooke, “two sisters who’re so shut to one another that they converse in unison, love the identical man, and have the identical goals. They even make the identical slip of tongue in unison. Searching for an imaginary land, the Orkneys – the place real love is feasible – they begin digging a tunnel by means of a complete mountain vary.”
Bloom will play their rowdy ex-lover Gareth Mulroney and Gleeson will likely be Timothy, their government-issued social employee/mender, making an attempt to assist them adapt to fashionable life after the 2 develop into tabloid sensations.
HanWay Movies has boarded the venture to rep worldwide gross sales and will likely be sharing first footage from Dublin, Sligo (Eire) and Slovenia with consumers at Cannes.
The personal equity-backed movie is produced by Clara Wu Tsai, Ariel Leon Isacovitch and Agnes Chu, with Kieran Corrigan, Emanuele Moretti and Andrea Bucko.
Herzog reteams with key artistic collaborators with whom he has labored on earlier initiatives, together with Peter Zeitlinger (Unhealthy Lieutenant) as DoP, Marco Capalbo (The Fireplace Inside: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice) as editor, and Ernst Reijseger (Rescue Daybreak) as composer.
Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog spoke for the primary time right now concerning the venture: ”Bucking Fastard is a movie that, for me, completes a circle in an operatic triptych with my earlier movies, Fitzcarraldo and Grizzly Man. We can not see the world as Jean and Joan Holbrooke see it, however we do see how the world reacts to them — by means of the courts and the press, by means of those who need to assist and people who need to use them, by means of the eyes of beasts each tame and wild, and even by means of their very own echoes within the core of the earth.”
Gabrielle Stewart, CEO HanWay Movies, added: “Werner has surpassed himself in crafting one thing really authentic with shocking notes of humour and fantasy. We’re excited to be unveiling unique footage of Bucking Fastard to consumers in Cannes.”
Herzog is represented by Gersh; Kate Mara is represented by CAA, Mosaic Media Group and Sloane, Supply; Rooney Mara is represented by WME, Leisure 360 and Sloane, Supply; Bloom is represented by WME, Untitled Leisure and Felker, Toczek; Gleeson is represented by Paradigm, The Company and Goodman Genow.
