Girls-penned pics starring Ann Dowd and Maisie Williams are among the many newest tasks heading to the 2022 Cannes Movie Market. Dowd can be toplining “The Undertaker’s Youngsters,” a thriller written by Natasha LePetit. Williams will lead “Sinner V. Saints,” from screenwriter Jill Hoppe.
At the moment in pre-production, “The Undertaker’s Youngsters” can be introduced to potential consumers by The Alternate, Selection confirms. Dowd, who counts “Mass” and “Household Squares” amongst her latest credit, will painting “a secretive undertaker pressured to absorb two orphans.” The supply hints, “When her sinister plan for eliminating the children in her care is revealed, the kids plan a daring escape and discover themselves dealing with evil forces.”
“’The Undertaker’s Youngsters’ is a industrial excessive idea thriller with unbelievable twists and turns,” stated Nat McCormick, EVP of gross sales and distribution at The Alternate. “And who higher to play this mysterious, advanced lead than Ann Dowd who has confirmed her unbelievable expertise portraying characters starting from the darkish psyche of ‘Handmaid’s’ Aunt Lydia to the grief-stricken mom in ‘Mass.’ Audiences are going to like this on many ranges!”
Dowd is a four-time Emmy nominee; she took house a statuette for her supporting flip in “The Handmaid’s Story.” She and collaborators on “Mass,” an intimate drama about two {couples} navigating the aftermath of a tragedy, received the Robert Altman Award at this yr’s Impartial Spirit Awards. Dowd additionally obtained a BAFTA nod for her efficiency.
Williams’ “Sinner V. Saints” is a comedy concerning the real-life “manacled Mormon” intercourse scandal, per Deadline. Based mostly on information experiences and Anthony Delano’s guide, “Joyce McKinney and the Case of the Manacled Mormon,” the movie will start capturing early subsequent yr. WestEnd Movies will start worldwide gross sales at Cannes.
Beforehand the topic of the Errol Morris doc “Tabloid,” “Sinner V. Saints” is ready in Nineteen Seventies L.A. and London. “The movie traces a scandal that noticed an eccentric MENSA magnificence queen go to excessive lengths to cease the Mormon church from stealing away her sexual obsession: a Mormon missionary,” the supply describes.
“It’s uncommon to search out an over-the-top true story with compelling characters and zany twists and turns like this,” stated producer Andriana Williams. “The all-consuming ardour, absurd lawbreaking, and outrageous antics made information around the globe then and might make sure you entertain as we speak.”
“I’ve by no means learn a extra no-holds-barred fever dream of a script that whisks the reader on a journey of intercourse, obsession, and rock ‘n’ faith like ‘Sinner V. Saints.’ Obsessive, past love is an impressive premise, and sprinkle on high a killer true story involving abduction, quirky supporting characters, and the period of free love, and you’ve got a cocktail of one thing very potent,” defined director Tim Kirkby. “It’s a pleasure to roll round on the earth of our anti-heroine Joyce McKinney.”
You may see Maisie Williams subsequent in “Pistol,” a miniseries concerning the Intercourse Pistols and the rise of punk music in Britain premiering on Hulu Might 31. The “Sport of Thrones” actress’ different credit embrace “Two Weeks to Dwell” and “The New Mutants.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood