Miguel Angel Faura’s Roxbury Pictures has boarded Juan Carlos Medina’s Insensibles (Painless), one of the most-buzzed about psychological thrillers coming out of Catalonia. Painless is written by Medina and Spaniard Luis Berdejo. Apart from directing Kevin Costner in The New Daughter, Berdejo has proved a seminal influence on Barcelona-based genre production, co-writing REC with Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza. Set in Catalonia, Painless weaves two stories: in one, starting during the Spanish Civil War and running through to the ’60s, an asylum attempts to rehabilitate children who feel no pain, by teaching them physical suffering. In the second, unspooling in the present, a brilliant neurosurgeon who needs a bone marrow transplant, discovers this dark past when he searches for his biological parents. French actor Tomas Lemarquis (pictured below) will play a survivor of these experiments. Other top roles are being cast. Shooting begins in early 2011.
