PRODUCTION / FINANCEMENT Royaume-Uni
John Michael McDonagh tourne The Forgiven
par David Katz
- Le tournage du 4e long-métrage du cinéaste anglo-irlandais, avec Ralph Fiennes et Jessica Chastain, a débuté le mois dernier au Maroc
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Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain and Caleb Landry Jones are set to star in The Forgiven, the fourth feature by acclaimed writer-director John Michael McDonagh. Principal photography commenced in the middle of last month in Morocco, the location in which the eponymous source novel, written by Lawrence Osborne, takes place. Said Taghmaoui rounds off the supporting cast.
Marking a more mature project from McDonagh than his last, the irreverent US cop satire War on Everyone [+lire aussi :
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The Forgiven is a UK production being staged by McDonagh himself and Elizabeth Eves for their production company House of Un-American Activities, with Compton Ross, of Head Gear Films, taking an executive-producer credit. Osborne, whose novel Hunters in the Dark was also unveiled at last month’s EFM for a screen adaptation, is listed as an executive producer. Moroccan production support comes from Kasbah Films.
McDonagh is, of course, the brother of Oscar-winning filmmaker and playwright Martin McDonagh, with whom he shares a similar black-comic writing style. Prior to War on Everyone, he won acclaim for Calvary [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], which both featured a soulful leading turn from Brendan Gleeson. Fiennes has been nominated for two Oscars (for The English Patient and Schindler’s List) and has recently branched out into directing, his latest film being The White Crow [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], a biopic of Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev.
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