Mia Wasikowska will star in the upcoming film.
One of the horror movies that made most year-end best of lists for 2016 was director Nicolas Pesce’s The Eyes of My Mother, which was impressively Pesce’s feature debut. My personal thoughts on the film aside, there’s no denying that Pesce is a filmmaker looking to do some very interesting things; and if you dug The Eyes of My Mother, you’ll be happy to know he’s got another horror film soon headed our way.
Variety reports that Pesce has just wrapped production on Piercing, a psychological thriller that stars Mia Wasikowska, Christoper Abbott, Laia Costa, Maria Dizza, Wendell Pierce, and Martin Ireland. The film is based on Ryu Murakami’s (Audition) 1994 novel of the same name.
Abbott plays a man who kisses his wife and baby goodbye, seemingly headed away on business, with a plan to check into a hotel, call an escort service and kill an unsuspecting prostitute. His plan is thwarted by the alluring and mysterious call girl (Wasikowska) who arrives at his room, leading to a pulsating game of cat-and-mouse.
Memento Films International will launch sales at the Berlin Film Festival.
