EXCLUSIVE: Two-time BAFTA nominee Maxine Peake (The Village) is about to star as famend Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya within the well timed Cannes market bundle Mom Russia.
The movie will inform the story of world-renowned journalist and human rights activist Politkovskaya, who went from being a neighborhood print journalist to braving the Chechen killing fields and exposing Russian state corruption beneath Vladimir Putin. She refused to surrender reporting on the conflict in Chechnya regardless of quite a few acts of intimidation and violence, together with being poisoned. She was finally murdered within the elevator of her block of flats and it stays unclear who paid for the contract killing.
Oscar nominee Ciaran Hinds (Belfast) will play Nobel Prize-winning newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov and BAFTA nominee Jason Isaacs (The Demise Of Stalin) will play Politkovskaya’s husband Sacha.
Luminosity Leisure is launching worldwide gross sales on the venture on the Cannes market.
Pic is being produced by Good Movies Collective’s (The Infiltrator) Miriam Segal and Paul Brennan in collaboration with Okay. Jam Media and its principal Kia Jam (Fortunate Quantity Slevin), and Richard Alan Reid of BuzzFeed Studios.
Broadchurch and Vigil director James Sturdy will direct from a screenplay by Eric Poppen. Manufacturing is slated for late summer time 2022 within the UK and Latvia.
Segal advised us: “Three years in the past, after we began growing this screenplay about this fairly extraordinary girl, by no means did we think about how prescient it might turn out to be. To have assembled this unimaginable forged and staff, to be filming in each London and Latvia (with Forma Professional Movies and its principals Yulia Zayceva and Dean Altit), working with companions like Daniel Diamond and Luminosity, is an exceptional alternative.”
“Anna Politkovskaya’s story is considered one of unbelievable willpower and braveness within the face of unimaginable circumstances. I’m so thrilled to be working with Miriam and Paul on this extraordinary movie,” stated Luminosity’s Daniel Diamond.
As we first revealed, Luminosity is the corporate launched by Elie Samaha, Daniel Diamond, Geno Taylor, and Missy Valdez. The agency’s most up-to-date movie Again on The Strip starring Wesley Snipes and Tiffany Haddish is scheduled for launch later this 12 months.
Maxine Peake is represented by Maison 2. Ciaran Hinds is repped by Dalzell and Beresford and CAA. Jason Isaacs is repped by Impartial Expertise Group, Gersh, and Silver Lining Leisure. James Sturdy is repped by United Brokers, CAA, and Grandview. Eric Poppen is repped by BayShore Movies & Administration.
