Chloë Grace Moretz is including to her perenially busy slate. Deadline declares she is ready to star in “White Night time,” an upcoming adaptation of former high-ranking member of the Individuals’s Temple cult Deborah Layton’s memoir “Seductive Poison.” Anne Sewitsky (“Comfortable, Comfortable”) will likely be directing from a script by William Wheeler, whereas Joseph Gordon-Levitt is ready to painting cult chief James Jones.
Layton rose by way of the ranks of Jones’ cult, and was a part of the 1974 transfer to “Jonestown” in Guyana as an extension of their San Francisco based mostly operations. She escaped six months previous to the notorious tragedy of November 18, 1978, when greater than 900 individuals died in what grew to become referred to as the Jonestown Bloodbath, one of many largest mass murder-suicides on report. Simply days earlier than, Layton had been giving testimony in Washington D.C., requesting support for these being held within the encampment.
“Seductive Poison” was first revealed in 1998. It was optioned by Amy Nauiokas and Anne Carey, who’re on-board to provide “White Night time” below their Archer Grey banner, with manufacturing on account of begin this spring.
Following her starring function in Desiree Akhavan’s “The Miseducation of Cameron Publish,” and look reverse Isabel Huppert in “Greta,” Moretz’s most up-to-date credit embody Roseanne Liang’s “Shadow within the Cloud.” She additionally stars in upcoming Amazon sequence “The Peripheral” from “Westworld” creators Lisa Pleasure and Jonathan Nolan.
Norwegian director Sewitsky received the 2011 Sundance Grand Jury Prize award within the World Cinema Drama class for her movie “Comfortable, Comfortable.” She since went on to direct the characteristic “Homesick,” and episodes of “Black Mirror,” “Citadel Rock,” and “A Very British Scandal” for tv.
Nauiokas and Carey have labored on quite a few titles together with “The Diary of a Teenage Lady,” “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” and “Misplaced Ladies.”
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