Filming has wrapped on an under-the-radar display adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer prize-winning play, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, starring Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ben Foster and Colin Morgan.
Well recognized British theater and opera director, Jonathan Kent, has made his characteristic directorial debut on the undertaking, which has been filming in Ireland. Above is a primary picture from the manufacturing.
The undertaking sees double Academy Award and five-time Golden Globe winner Lange reprise her 2016 Tony-winning Broadway position, additionally directed by Kent. She portrays the troubled, emotionally fragile and addiction-plagued Mary Tyrone. Four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris is her husband James, a celebrated actor however failed property magnate – and a person with fears and regrets deeply rooted in his impoverished beginnings.
Foster will play their wayward, charming and hard-drinking elder son, Jamie. And Colin Morgan (Belfast) is the bleakly optimistic and consumptive youthful son, Edmund – a portrait of O’Neill himself. David Lindsay-Abaire (Poltergeist) tailored the play for display.
Set on one single day in August 1912 on the household’s Connecticut seaside dwelling, the story follows the Tyrone household because it faces the looming twin spectres of Edmund’s probably deadly consumption prognosis alongside his mom Mary’s more and more fragile and anxious mind-set. The household is aware of that the scenario threatens to return her to the extreme morphine dependancy that was solely lately overcome.
Filmed on location in County Wicklow, Ireland, the movie is financed by Magnoliamae Films, BKStudios, Brouhaha Entertainment and Fetisoff Illusion. It is produced by Gabrielle Tana (Philomena), Bill Kenwright (Cheri) and Gleb Fetisov (Loveless).
As first reported by the Irish Times, filming was briefly halted after just some days when a financier unexpectedly exited the undertaking however these points had been resolved quickly after when BKStudios stepped in.
Executive producers are BKStudios’ CEO, David Gilbery (The Lost Daughter), and head of manufacturing is Naomi George (My Pure Land). The movie is co-produced with Redmond Morris and his Irish manufacturing firm Four Provinces Films.
Director of pictures was Mark Wolf with manufacturing design by Anna Rackard and costume design by Joan Bergin and Jane Greenwood.
Eugene O’Neill’s basic play has been tailored a number of instances for the massive and small display together with variations by Sidney Lumet and Jonathan Miller.
Lange is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment; Ed Harris by CAA and Ziffren Brittenham LLP; Ben Foster by United Talent Agency; Colin Morgan by United Agents.
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