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‘Coherence’ Director Asks, ‘Do They Know It’s Murder?’
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
Two-time BAFTA winning filmmaker Joe Wright (Hanna, “Black Mirror“) is set to direct the feature adaptation of post-apocalyptic thriller novel, Juice, Deadline reports today.
Emmy winner Abi Morgan (Shame, “Eric”) will adapt Tim Winton‘s novel for Working Title Films.
In Juice, “A young husband and father is recruited into a top-secret resistance organization, to join the ranks of militia men tasked with targeting the isolated and wealthy culprits responsible for this global catastrophe. When a mission goes wrong, he finds himself on the run, having to fight to the end to survive in this hostile world.”
It’s set in a world ravaged by climate-change disaster.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled that Tim Winton has entrusted us with his extraordinary epic,” Wright told Deadline. “The story is both a thrilling modern family saga and an urgent call to action. I cannot wait for audiences to experience it on the big screen.”
Winton added, “I’m pleased to know a filmmaker of Joe Wright’s calibre has chosen to adapt Juice for the screen. His capacity to portray the turmoil and the turning points of nations and peoples as well as private individuals distinguishes his work as a director and I’m confident that Juice is in good hands.”
Juice was initially published in October 2024 and longlisted for The Climate Fiction Prize 2026.
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