EXCLUSIVE: Ireland-based Break Out Pictures has acquired UK-Ireland rights for UK filmmaker Grant Gee’s Everybody Digs Bill Evans, about the legendary jazz pianist, that will star Anders Danielsen Lie, Bill Pullman and Laurie Metcalf.
Mister Smith Entertainment has world sales, with CAA co-repping US rights.
Principal photography is scheduled to start in Ireland on May 26.
Barry Ward, Valene Kane and Katie McGrath have joined the cast. Producers are Janine Marmot of the UK’s Hot Property Films and Alan Maher for Ireland’s Cowtown Pictures. Fiona Kinsella is coproducing.
Everybody Digs Bills Evans is set in June 1961 in New York City where legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his perfect musical trio. But tragedy hits, leaving Evans unable to bring himself to play.
The film will be shot partially in black and white, from a script written by Mark O’Halloran, and is based on the book Intermission by Owen Martell.
Financiers are Screen Ireland, Over The Fence Films, Finite Films, Shoni Productions and OnSight, with support from the UK Global Screen Fund.
Break Out Pictures is planning a 2026 release. Its slate of previous UK-Ireland releases includes A Quiet Girl (in partnership with Curzon) and That They May Face The Rising Sun (in partnership with Conic).
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