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A24 Acquires ‘In Fabric,’ a Horror Film Centered on a Cursed Dress
Earlier this month at the Toronto International Film Festival, Peter Strickland‘s horror film In Fabric world premiered, the film set during a department store’s winter sale where customers – from a lonely divorcee (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) to the wife (Hayley Squires) of a washing machine repairman – end up cursed by a scarlet dress that corrupts their lives.
THR reports today that A24 has acquired In Fabric out of TIFF, grabbing the North American rights to the film. They’re planning a domestic release in 2019.
In Fabric tells the story of a lonely woman, played by Jean-Baptiste who visits a London department store in search of a dress that will transform her life.
“She’s fitted with a perfect, dark red gown that unleashes a malevolent curse and unstoppable evil, threatening everyone that comes into its path.”
Joe Lipsett reviewed In Fabric for us at TIFF, awarding it 4/5 stars and writing that the film “dresses up a simple tale to haunting effect.”
The cast also includes Leo Bill, Julian Barrett, Steve Oram and Gwendoline Christie.
From director David Ayer (Suicide Squad, Fury), Heart of the Beast will hit theaters on September 25 from Paramount Pictures, and GQ shares first look images this week.
In the film, a former Army Special Forces soldier and his retired combat dog attempt to return to civilization after suffering a catastrophic accident deep in the Alaskan wilderness.
Brad Pitt stars in the survival thriller Heart of the Beast, with J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) and Anna Lambe (“True Detective: Night Country”) also starring.
Cameron Alexander wrote the screenplay for Heart of the Beast. Academy Award winner Mauro Fiore (Avatar, Spider-Man: No Way Home) serves as director of photography.
“I’ll just be really honest: it made me cry,” Ayer tells GQ of the script. “Reading the script, it’s like a tone poem, in a sense. It’s so sparse—just a guy, a dog, mountains, and the calamities and triumphs that unfold, but what’s fascinating about the script is they’re constantly rescuing each other. It’s not like a guy and his pet—they felt like co-equals in this story. Brad wanted to be No. 2 on the call sheet, and rightly so. There was just something profound in the script. It felt like a study in grief, in healing, and of the human heart. So I had to do it.”
Ayer promises, “Don’t worry, the dog lives.”
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