With taking pictures now underway within the south of France on darkish comedy “The Worst,” the manufacturing has added a serious cohort of names to its already buzzy solid.
Sam Claflin (“F.A.S.T.,” “Daisy Jones and the Six”), Tom Hollander (“Gosford Park,” “The Night Manager”), Anthony Boyle (“I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning,” “The Altruists”), Josh Finan (“Say Nothing,” “Waiting for the Out”), Anna Maxwell Martin (“Star City,” “Until I Kill You”), Dustin Demri-Burns (“The Magic Faraway Tree,” “Slow Horses”) and Sian Clifford (“Fleabag,” “The Ballad of Wallis Island”) have joined the movie, which was first introduced by Selection earlier this 12 months.
Zackary Momoh (“Doctor Sleep,” “Parish”) and Eka Chavleishvili (“Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry”) spherical out the ensemble.
The brand new additions be part of the beforehand introduced Keira Knightley (“The Imitation Game, Pride & Prejudice”), Alicia Vikander (“Firebrand,” “The Danish Girl”) and Erin Kellyman (“Eleanor the Great,” “28 Years Later”). In the meantime, Boyle replaces fellow Belfast-born actor Jamie Dornan, who was initially solid.
Marking the characteristic directorial debut of Simon Woods, “The Worst” — which was launched on the European Movie Market by Protagonist Photos, Logical Photos Group and UTA Impartial Movie Group — is described as a “wickedly entertaining class satire” that “skewers privilege, power and performative morality, turning an elegant couples’ getaway into a hilariously disastrous night to remember.”
The movie facilities on socialite Emily Fisher (Vikander) and her husband Max (Hollander) as they invite their equally rich pals to their new chateau in France for the evening. Among the many visitors are a gaggle of people that actually can’t stand one another: Jim (Clafin) and his Holly (Knightley), a struggling variety advisor who constantly clashes with everybody till she will get a migraine, and Danny (Boyle) a quick-witted expertise agent that name-drops his shopper listing each probability he will get. Because the night begins to unravel and darkish secrets and techniques are revealed, waitress Niamh (Kellyman) finds herself proper in the midst of their chaos.
Written and helmed by actor-turned-playwright-turned-director Woods (Nationwide Theatre’s “Hansard,” “Such a Lovely Day”), “The Worst” is being produced by Andy Berg and John Sachs of Eclipse Movies, alongside BAFTA winner Josh Hyams of Promise Photos. Frédéric Fiore, Ryan Wickers and Andrei Kamarowsky function govt producers for Logical Photos Group, alongside Dave Bishop, James Pugh and George Hamilton for Protagonist Photos and Charles Low for Eclipse.
Logical Photos Group are financing the movie, and co-rep worldwide gross sales alongside Protagonist Photos. UTA Impartial Movie Group co-represent home rights.
Knightley is repped by United Brokers, Vary Media Companions, Narrative and Sloane, Supply, Weber & Dern.; Vikander is repped by UTA, Tapestry London, Sloane, Supply, Weber & Dern; Kellyman is repped by Curtis Brown Group, CAA and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher; Claflin is repped by Impartial Expertise Group, UTA and Glaser Weil; Hollander is repped by United Brokers within the U.Ok. and Nameless Content material and WME within the U.S.; Boyle is repped by B-Aspect, WME, Tapestry London and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; Finan is repped by Perception Administration & Manufacturing, Vary Media Companions and Public Eye Communications; Maxwell Martin is repped by United Brokers; Demri-Burns is repped by United Brokers and Linden Leisure; Clifford is repped by United Brokers, UTA and Nameless Content material; Momoh is repped by The Artists Partnership, Leisure 360 and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.
