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‘The Great Ghost Rescue’ Fully Cast and Ready to Roll
Affinity International has boarded sales rights heading into Cannes to The Great Ghost Rescue, set to begin eight weeks of principal photography in the UK and Hungary next week. Yann Samuell will direct David Solomons’ adaptation of the novel by Eva Ibbotson. Jason Isaacs (the Harry Potter films), Kevin McKidd (Dog Soldiers, Hannibal Rising) and Emma Fielding (“The Ghost Squad”) all star. The cast also includes Georgia Groome, Steven Mackintosh and newcomer Toby Hall, who plays a small ghost whose family has been ousted from their home. The family unites with other spirits in a bid to find a sanctuary, but in the process the tide of opinion turns against them.
Steve Guttenberg will open up a Dybbuk box in the upcoming movie The Dybbuk, with Beth Grant (No Country For Old Men) and Craig Bierko (Cinderella Man) also starring.
Deadline reports, “The contemporary adaptation of S. Ansky’s play comes from writer-director Lee Amir-Cohen and writer-producer Ashley Bua. Filming has recently wrapped in LA.”
Steven Guttenberg plays Rabbi Azrael in the upcoming Jewish folklore-based horror movie. The character is described as “a spiritual leader and mystic, forced to perform a dangerous exorcism when the spirit of a dead man possesses a young woman in his congregation.”
“Tony-nominee Craig Bierko plays Sender, the young woman’s father, while Beth Grant plays Frayda, her grandmother,” Deadline notes in their exclusive report this morning.
Lee Amir-Cohen makes his feature directorial debut with The Dybbuk.