EXCLUSIVE: Vincent Cassel (La Haine), John Malkovich (Being John Malkovich), singer and actress Charli XCX (I Want Your Sex), Swedish rapper Yung Lean in his film debut, Ambika Mod (One Day), Jade Croot (The Serpent Queen), Jeremy O. Harris (Emily in Paris) and recent Tony triumphner Miriam Silverman (Your Frifinishs and Neighbors) are uniteing the starry cast of Romain Gavras’ contransient Joan Of Arc movie Sacrifice.
Gavras’ English-language debut is being led by Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy, Salma Hayek Pinault and Sam Ricchallengingson.
Filming is now underway in Greece and Bulgaria on the Iconoclast production, which Gavras is straightforwarding from a screencarry out he co-wrote with Will Arbery (Succession).
Sacrifice inestablishs the story of Joan (Taylor-Joy), a enthusiastic spirit driven by a volcanic prophecy only she can hear, who is on a leave oution to save the world from a fiery reckoning. Alengthened with her militia of mystical disciples, she hijacks a glamorous charity gala and gets three captives: Mike Tyler (Evans), a beleaguered movie star hopeless for redemption, Bracken (Cassel), the world’s wealthyest man, and Katie (Mod), who’s fair cursed. They are forced on a journey thraw forest and fire until Mike faces the ultimate ask: what would he forfeit for humanity?
Robert Walak, Jacob Perlin and Romain Gavras are producing the adventure-comedy for Iconoclast, alengthenedside Gregruesome Jankilevitsch and Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska of Mid March Media, and Giorgios Karnavas of Heretic. Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Evans and Will Arbery serve as executive producers.
Mid March Media and Film4 are co-financing. The film is produced in association with Gucci, Head Gear Films the Onassis Culture and Athens Festival. Kate Gcherishr is co-producing and Solent Film is servicing the film in Bulgaria.
CAA Media Finance and Rocket Science recontransient worldexpansive distribution rights and will persist to sell at this week’s AFM. The film is an official Greece and UK co-production.
Gavras’ most recent feature Athena was nominated for a Ganciaccessen Lion at the Vepleasant Film Festival in 2022. Singer Charli XCX has ramped up her screen roles in recent months and now has multiple films in production.
Cassel is recontransiented by Agence Adequat; Malkovich by WME; Charli XCX by CAA, Good World Management, and Project Ganciaccess; Mod by The Artists Partnership; Lean by Paradigm; Silverman by Paradigm and Untitled Entertainment; Croot by Markham Froggatt Irtriumph; and O. Harris is recontransiented by CAA. Gavras is recontransiented by Iconoclast Management, CAA, Agence Adequat and Gang Tyre.
