Sophie Hyde’s third feature has found a home stateside following its well-received world premiere out of Sundance. Searchlight Pictures scored U.S. rights to Emma Thompson-starrer “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.” The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the news.
Penned by Katy Brand (“Glued”), the comedy tells the story of Nancy (Thompson), a retired school teacher who hires a sex worker (Daryl McCormack, “The Wheel of Time”) in the hopes of having good sex for the first time in her life.
Asked what she’d like people to think about after watching the film, Hyde told us, “How important pleasure is. How we have been taught that we should hate our bodies and what we lose as a result. How someone else’s perspective can open things for us that we haven’t previously thought about or understood. We have a tremendous capacity for connection. That desire can lead us to wonderful things.”
“Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” will stream exclusively on Hulu in the U.S.
Last seen in Disney’s live-action “Cruella,” Thompson won an Oscar for her lead role in 1992’s “Howards End,” and another for writing the screenplay for 1995’s “Sense and Sensibility.”
Hyde previously helmed “52 Tuesdays” and “Animals.”
Searchlight also recently nabbed rights to another woman-directed Sundance title, “Fresh,” Mimi Cave’s thriller about the horrors of modern dating. “Normal People’s” Daisy Edgar-Jones stars.
Sundance, which thanks to COVID-19 is digital this year, began on January 20th and continues through January 30th.
Source: Women And Hollywood