Mikey Madison has signed on to her first feature since winning the lead actress Oscar for Anora, and will star alongside Kirsten Dunst in Reptilia for Monos director Alejandro Landes Echavarría.
Charades will commence international sales in Cannes next week, with UTA Independent Film Group and 30West jointly handling US rights.
The film is based on a script by Landes Echavarría and Duke Merriman. Pastel (Moonlight, Aftersun), Imperative Entertainment (Killers Of The Flower Moon, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey), and AF Films will produce alongside Landes Echavarría through his A Stela Cine. Black Bear is providing financing.
Principal photography is scheduled to commence in the autumn on the story about a dental hygienist seduced by a mermaid into the dark underworld of Florida’s exotic animal trade.
This is Landes Echavarría’s follow-up to his 2019 Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award winner Monos, which went on to win the best film award at 2019 BFI London Film Festival, and was subsequently selected as Colombia’s Oscar submission. His narrative debut, Porfirio, premiered in 2011 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.
Madison’s credits include Scream 5 and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, as well as FX series Better Things.
Dunst won the Cannes best actress award in 2011 for Melancholia, and has starred in The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, Spider-Man, and The Power Of The Dog, which earned her an Oscar nomination. She will next appear in Derek Cianfrance’s Roofman opposite Channing Tatum and in Ruben Östlund’s upcoming A24 feature The Entertainment System Is Down.
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