Indie filmmaker James Ward Byrkit, the acclaimed writer-director of low-budget 2014 film Coherence, has found his next project in the dramatic thriller Do They Know It’s Murder, writes the Tracking Board.
The film is set during the recording of the 1984 song “Do They Know It’s Christmas” as songwriter Bob Geldof discovers a dead body and must find out who killed the star without derailing the song.
The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson will produce with Laura Tunstall and Mette-Marie Kongsved of Nowhere Films.
Byrkit’s first full-length feature, Coherence, won Best Screenplay at Fantastic Fest and the Sitges International Film Festival, and the film also earned him a Gotham Award nomination for Breakout Director of the Year.
Source: TB