EXCLUSIVE: That scorching package deal Deadline first advised you about at Cannes, the function thriller The End We Start From from Benedict Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch, is including Katherine Waterston. She will star reverse BAFTA and Primetime Emmy winner Jodie Comer within the London-set environmental disaster film a couple of mom who along with her new child youngster tries to discover a approach house amid chaotic floods. Waterston we hear will play the character of ‘O’.
BAFTA winner Mahalia Belo (The Long Song) is helming off Alice Birch’s (Succession) screenplay based mostly on the Megan Hunter novel. Producers are SunnyMarch’s Leah Clarke and Adam Ackland (The Mauritanian) and Hera Pictures’ Liza Marshall (Temple) alongside Sophie Hunter and Amy Jackson (The Nest).
Anton and BBC Film are co-financing. EPs Cumberbatch, Anton’s Sébastien Raybaud, Comer, Raybaud and Cecile Gaget (Greenland), and BBC Film’s Eva Yates (After Love). Gaget launched world gross sales on the pic at Cannes with UTA Independent Film Group repping U.S. Cameras are rolling this month. The End We Start is the primary challenge below the brand new settlement between Anton and Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch, the previous taking a minority stake within the firm as Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman first reported.
The Film Independent Award profitable Waterston just lately starred within the Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan drama thriller Black Flies. She stars in Damien Chazelle’s upcoming Hollywood interval epic, Babylon, due out at year-end from Paramount, and season 2 of the HBO sequence Perry Mason. She just lately reprised her function as Tina Goldstein in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore which has grossed over $405M WW and despatched the Harry Potter spinoff trilogy to $1.87 billion. She acquired vital acclaim in Bleecker Street’s interval romance The World to Come reverse Casey Affleck and Vanessa Kirby, which made its world premiere at Venice 2020. She additionally starred final 12 months within the HBO restricted sequence The Third Day. Other function credit embody Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant which grossed over $240M WW, Jonah Hill’s Mid90s, Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice which gained the Robert Altman award on the Film Independent Spirit Awards in 2015. Waterston additionally starred on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire.
Waterston is repped by UTA, Silver Lining Entertainment, LARK Management and attorneys Gretchen Rush and Robert Koch at HJTH.
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