Fionn Whitehead and Luis Gnecco are set to star in Borges and Me, an adaptation of Jay Parini’s memoir of his Nineteen Seventies journey via the Scottish Highlands with famend Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Parini is greatest recognized for his historic novel The Final Station, which was tailored as an Oscar-nominated characteristic by Michael Hoffman in 2009.
Dunkirk actor Whitehead, recent off his efficiency as Pip reverse Olivia Colman’s Miss Havisham within the FX/BBC manufacturing of Nice Expectations, will play Parini, with Chilean-Italian Gnecco, greatest recognized for his roles in Neruda, No, and A Implausible Lady, as Borges. The solid additionally consists of Alan Cumming, Peter Mullan, and Harriet Sansom Harris.
In Borges and Me, Parini, a 23-year-old shy scholar who goals of changing into a author, finds himself caught in chauffeuring the sensible, blind Borges, aged 70, via Scotland. At first, Parini is at a loss to make sense of the wild, irrepressible Borges. Their journey, very similar to a Borges story, takes a surreal flip that amplifies their variations till, within the custom of a traditional street film, the 2 discover widespread floor.
Marc Turtletaub (Puzzle, Jules) is directing from a screenplay by Oren Moverman (The Messenger, Love & Mercy). Taking pictures has begun in Scotland, with Massive Seashore producing and financing.
Borges and Me has been arrange as a co-production between the U.Ok., Belgium, and The Netherlands. Producers embody Alex Polunin from Ossian Worldwide within the U.Ok. alongside Michael B. Clark, Marc Turtletaub and Tim Foley of Massive Seashore, with co-producers Leontine Petit and Erik Glijnis from Lemming Movie and Dries Phlypo from A Non-public View. Stephen Burt will govt produce.
Whitehead is represented by Curtis Brown Group, UTA, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson, & Christopher. Gnecco is represented by Ruth Franco Expertise, IMC Administration, and Expertise on the Street Administration. Cumming is represented by CAA, B-Facet Administration, and Bond Artist Administration. Mullan is represented by Markham, Froggatt and Irwin. Harris is represented by BRS / Gage Expertise Company.
Turtletaub is represented by Nameless Content material. Moverman is represented by CAA and Seven Deuce Leisure. Massive Seashore is represented by Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes LawCo within the US and Lee & Thompson within the UK.