Black Bear and Hope Studios introduced Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie is formally set to star within the upcoming film adaptation of Anxious Folks, primarily based on the bestselling novel.
Who’s directing Anxious Folks?
Anxious Folks shall be directed by Marc Forster, who just lately was behind the digital camera behind for 2022’s Tom Hanks movie A Man Referred to as Otto, and in addition directed the blockbuster World War Z. The movie is predicated on the #1 New York Occasions bestselling novel by Fredrik Backman, and follows the story of an funding banker (Jolie) who’s at an open home when a financial institution robber takes your entire residence hostage.
Alongside Forster, Anxious Folks shall be written by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter David Magee, who beforehand wrote A Man Referred to as Otto, which Forster labored on. No casting info in addition to Jolie has been introduced but, nor has any launch info been made out there.
Anxious Folks shall be produced by Hope Studios’ Fredrik Wikström Nicastro and Renée Wolfe (A Man Referred to as Otto, Christopher Robin), with Forster, Magee, and Neda Backman all serving as government producers. Black Bear is about to barter for distribution rights on the upcoming Cannes Movie Competition.
“The day earlier than Christmas Eve, funding banker Zara (Jolie) begrudgingly finds herself mingling with a bunch of strangers at an open home,” reads the movie’s official synopsis. “When a reluctant financial institution robber inadvertently takes the group hostage, chaos and oversharing ensues, secrets and techniques are revealed and actually nothing goes in line with plan. A poignant, charming movie a few crime that by no means happened, a would-be financial institution robber who disappears into skinny air, and eight extraordinarily anxious strangers who discover they’ve extra in frequent than they ever imagined.”
