Elizabeth Banks is in some way discovering time in her busy slate as an actor, director, and producer to star in medical drama “A Mistake,” to be helmed by New Zealand-born filmmaker Christine Jeffs (“Sunshine Cleansing”). In keeping with a press launch, gross sales will kick off at Cannes and the function movie will go into manufacturing later this summer time in New Zealand.
Jeffs will direct her personal script, which relies on the novel of the identical identify by Carl Shuker. She can even produce, together with Matthew Metcalfe.
The story follows Elizabeth Taylor (Banks), a gifted surgeon and the one feminine marketing consultant at her hospital. Whereas working on a affected person at some point, one thing goes horribly mistaken with the process. The supply additional particulars: “Within the midst of a brand new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ efficiency, her colleagues start to shut ranks, and Elizabeth’s life is thrown into disarray. Powerful and abrasive, Elizabeth has survived and succeeded on this most demanding subject. However can she survive a single mistake?”
Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder from Cornerstone Movies are on board to exec produce. They stated of the mission: “’A Mistake’ is a narrative of our time — of gender politics, revenue versus care, and the manipulation of fact. Christine’s screenplay is among the most compelling we’ve learn in a very long time and who higher to convey it to the display than Christine herself.”
Jeffs is the writer-director of “Rain” — which was nominated for the Golden Digicam award at Cannes in 2001 — and director of Gwyneth Paltrow-starrer “Sylvia.” “Sunshine Cleansing,” which she additionally directed, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize within the dramatic class at Sundance Movie Pageant.
Banks’ most up-to-date on-screen credit embody Phyllis Nagy’s “Name Jane,” which premiered at Sundance earlier this 12 months and is scheduled for a fall launch, and the miniseries “Mrs. America.” Her personal directing slate consists of “Cocaine Bear,” which is predicted to open subsequent 12 months.
Supply: Women And Hollywood