Highland Film Group announced today that they will be handling international sales of writer/director Jeffrey Morris’ sci-fi feature Persephone, beginning in Cannes later this month.
The cast includes Mary-Louise Parker (“Weeds,” Red, R.I.P.D.), Brianna Hildebrand (pictured right in Tragedy Girls; “The Exorcist”, Deadpool, Deadpool 2, “Trinkets,”); Emile Hirsch (pictured below in Freaks, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Into The Wild, Speed Racer); and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Halloween, Time After Time).
In the film…
“The year is 2185. Earth is no longer habitable, having forced the remaining survivors into space in search of a new home. With the discovery of the massive, lifeless planet Persephone, a team of three astronauts—resolute pilot Darcy Clarke (Hildebrand), offbeat engineer Tanya Baxter (Parker), and passionate scientist Kyle Niven (Hirsch)—is sent to tackle an unexpected lifeform risking human inhabitance and to determine: Can humanity survive without repeating the mistakes of the past?”
Principal photography will commence in Q4, 2019.
Cassian Elwes (Lee Daniel’s The Butler, Mudbound, Dallas Buyers Club) will produce and handle US rights. Anne Marie Gillen (Fried Green Tomatoes, Under Suspicion) will also produce with Jere Hausfater serving as executive producer and Pixomondo Studios (“Game of Thrones,” The Battle of Midway) co-producing and creating the VFX.
