After Athena, Romain Gavras brings together Anya Taylor-Joy, Salma Hayek, Chris Evans, Brendan Fraser…
His first English-language film, entitled Sacrifice, will show a charity gala which turns into tragedy after the irruption of violent radicals.
This is a project which should quickly find international distributors, according to Deadline. For his first English-language film, Romain Gavras (The World is ours, Athena…) will bring together a nice cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Salma Hayek, Chris Evans And Brendan Fraser have all signed up to be the stars of Sacrificethe story of a charity gala that turns into a massacre “after the irruption of a group of violent radicals who try to fulfill a mysterious prophecy”specifies the pitch.
For the moment, we only know the roles of Ana Taylor-Joy and Chris Evans: the new interpreter of Furiosa will be at the head of the group, and she will have chosen as a target to be sacrificed a movie star played by the ex- interpreter of Captain America. As for the characters offered to the artists ofA night in hell and of The Whale, they have not yet been specified. But the American source makes another tantalizing promise: “More actors should quickly be hired on this CAA Media France and Rocket Science project.”
In short, we will know more very soon, Sacrifice to be presented at the film market in parallel with the next Cannes festival. The article finally specifies that Robert Walak will produce this film via his company Iconoclast, alongside Romain Gavras, Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Evans.
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