Neon has acquired North American rights for Kitty Green’s social thriller The Royal Hotel produced by See-Saw Films, starring Julia Garner, Hugo Weaving and Jessica Henwick.
Green and Garner will be reunited after starring together in Green’s The Assistant which premiered at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival and earned the director an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Inspired by true events, the film follows best friends backpacking in Australia who take a temporary live-in job at The Royal Hotel pub in a remote mining town. But when the pair meet the bar owner, they find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that quickly gets out of control.
Green co-wrote the screenplay with Oscar Redding (Van Diemen’s Land). The film begins shooting this summer in Australia, with production investment from Screen Australia in association with the South Australian Film Corporation. The feature is also financed with support from Screen NSW.
See-Saw Films’ Emile Sherman and Iain Canning serve as producers on the project with See-Saw’s head of film and television in Australia, Liz Watts, and Scarlett Pictures’ Kath Shelper.
The deal was negotiated by Jeff Deutchman and Mason Speta on behalf of Neon, See-Saw COO Simon Gillis on behalf of in-house sales arm Cross City Films and UTA Independent Film Group.
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