EXCLUSIVE: British actress Janet Montgomery, recognized for her starring roles in U.S. sequence New Amsterdam and Salem, and roles in motion pictures together with Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar winner Black Swan, is ready to star in sci-fi physique horror Symbiosis.
UK indie 1185, which lately produced Sitges and FrightFest horror All You Want Is Dying, will probably be speaking to patrons in regards to the venture at this week’s European Movie Market in Berlin forward of an April begin for the film.
Directed by Mark Heller (The Passage), screenplay is written by Stephen James Thompson, who joined the 1185 Movies steady in 2023 as its improvement advisor to move up the movie and TV slate. Co-producing is 1185 Movies founder Nick Franco (All You Want is Dying), with founding father of New Web page Leisure and former CEO of BlackBox Multimedia, Giuliano Papadia (The Serial Killer’s Spouse). Gareth Jones (Boiling Level) can also be on board as government producer.
Set in a distant analysis station in Scotland, in Symbiosis a husband-and-wife workforce are working over Christmas as the one two individuals who can save humanity from an alien parasite — tiny tapeworm creatures which have invaded the our bodies of the human race. Remoted and suffocating underneath the burden of their circumstances, the fault traces of the married couple’s relationship are uncovered. Further casting is being finalised.
Janet Montgomery commented: “Once I learn Symbiosis, I knew I needed to be a part of this distinctive story. The intimate exploration of a relationship on the brink set in a dystopian world makes the function of Yulia such an enchanting and sophisticated human story. I can’t wait to get my enamel caught into her.”
Director Mark Heller added: “Symbiosis is a psychological horror movie that blends an intensely human story with an unsettling sci-fi premise. At its core, it explores the fragility of survival, each in {our relationships} and as a species, and the way, in the end, the true query of symbiosis might not simply lie with otherworldly entities, however in our personal capacity to coexist.
“Utilizing leading edge methods, I intend to create a sense of intense claustrophobia in a stripped again setting the place efficiency, ambiance and stress will take centre stage. Symbiosis will mix the starkness of a traditional and visceral physique horror with the intimacy and uncooked emotion of chamber drama. As a narrative of isolation, emotional fact, worry and hope, it is a movie that dares to ask troublesome questions. From our worry of the unknown to the deeply unsettling chance that what we think about to be parasitic might, in reality, be one thing way more complicated and essential to our survival.”
Montgomery is represented by CAA, Untitled Leisure and Hamilton Hodell.
