Bleecker Road has picked up U.S. rights to Mikael Håfström’s sci-fi thriller Slingshot, starring Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne and Emily Beecham. Further solid contains Fauda star Tomer Capone and The Strolling Useless’s David Morrissey.
The movie, which is written by R. Scott Adams and Nathan Parker (Moon), follows an astronaut who struggles to keep up his grip on actuality aboard a presumably fatally compromised mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan.
Bleecker Road is planning a 2024 nationwide theatrical launch for the movie.
Slingshot is an Astral Photos manufacturing in affiliation with Bluestone Leisure, Széchenyi Funds Ltd., and Filmsquad. The movie was produced by Richard Saperstein, Istvan Main, and Beau Turpin, with govt producers together with Ivett Havasi, Shara Kay, Michael Hollingsworth, Tom Nohstadt, Ron Cundy, Nikolett Barabás, Jonathan Krauss, Brooklyn Weaver, and Joanna Plafsky.
The deal was negotiated by Kent Sanderson and Avy Eschenasy on behalf of Bleecker Road with WME Impartial on behalf of the filmmakers, who’re additionally representing the worldwide rights to the movie.
Bleecker Road might be in Berlin with the world premiere of Treasure from filmmaker Julia von Heinz, starring Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry, in addition to David and Nathan Zellner’s Sasquatch Sundown, starring Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg, which world premiered in Sundance final month.
Bleecker Road not too long ago launched the Stone Age-set thriller Out of Darkness, Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s house station-set thriller I.S.S and Sara Bareilles’ Waitress: The Musical.
Bluestone Leisure, Széchenyi Funds Ltd, and Filmsquad are at the moment in prep for writer-director James Vanderbilt’sNuremberg, set to star Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, and Michael Shannon. Principal pictures for that movie is ready to start in Hungary later this month.
