Tilda Swinton to Star in ‘Death in Her Hands’ for Filmmaker David Lowery

On the Berlin Movie Competition in February, Tilda Swinton mentioned she was trying ahead to an extended break from appearing throughout which she would open a brand new chapter in her life in profession past the large display screen. However she’s not fairly able to bow out simply but.

Swinton is ready to star in an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s cult novel Demise in Her Fingers for David Lowery. The auteur will write and direct the movie for See-Noticed Movies and a group of producers that features Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Jeanie Igoe with govt producers Simon Gillis and Ann Phillips.

Printed by Penguin Press on June 23, 2020, Demise in Her Fingers is described per at present’s launch as “an anarchic whodunnit, an otherworldly psychological thriller and a placing portrait of a lady striving to take management of her personal story.” Swinton will painting Vesta Gul, a not too long ago widowed lady who comes throughout a chilling handwritten be aware whereas strolling within the woods close to her house. It reads: “Her title was Magda. No person will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Right here is her lifeless physique.” Unable to discover a physique or blood, Vesta turns into obsessive about discovering the reality about Magda’s destiny.

“I’m a loyal fan of Ottessa Moshfegh, and the chance to translate Demise In Her Fingers to the large display screen has been, in some methods, a subterfuge for attending to spend quite a lot of time obsessing over her prose. However now the ruse is up,” Lowery defined in a press release. “The script begot by the novel will quickly grow to be a movie, and I’m abruptly conscious greater than ever that adapting this specific work represents a devious problem — anybody who’s learn the novel will perceive why. However I’m prepared for it, and am emboldened to have such great collaborators at my aspect: the entire group at See-Noticed, Jeanie and naturally, the unimaginable Tilda Swinton, who I do know will illuminate Ottessa’s story in methods I may solely dream of.”

The producers additionally had one thing to say about mounting this mission with such high-caliber expertise connected. “David Lowery is a grasp of crafting placing, atmospheric tales, and there’s nobody higher to deliver Ottessa Moshfegh’s haunting and sensible novel to the display screen,” See-Noticed founders Canning and Sherman mentioned collectively of the filmmaker whose credit have discovered him exploring comparable territory in A Ghost Story, The Previous Man & the Gun and The Inexperienced Knight. “We are able to’t watch for audiences to step into the world he creates and be swept away by Vesta’s story, performed by the incomparable, magnetic and endlessly compelling Tilda Swinton.”

Cross Metropolis Movies, See-Noticed’s in-house gross sales arm, is teaming up with WME Impartial to safe financing throughout the Cannes Movie Competition.

Swinton is repped by Hamilton Hodell, CAA and Peikoff Mahan. Lowery is repped by WME, ID-PR and Victoria Cook dinner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Swinton is coming off The Room Subsequent Door and The Finish whereas Lowery, who final directed Skeleton Key, will quickly launch his Anne Hathaway-starrer Mom Mary.

See-Noticed Movies, with workplaces in London and Sydney, is a part of the Paris-based Mediawan Group. The Oscar-winning firm’s credit embody Gradual Horses for Apple TV+, Heartstopper for Netflix, The Energy of the Canine, Lion, and finest image winner The King’s Speech. Different titles embody Sweetpea, Apple Cider Vinegar, Grown Ups and Rivers of London.

Mosfegh’s different books embody My 12 months of Relaxation and Rest, Eileen, Lapvona, Homesick for One other World, McGlue, Bettering Myself, The Weirdos, The Seaside Boy and Disgust.