EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Phillippe (Shooter) and Kate Beckinsale (Underworld) are main thriller The Affected person, which is launching within the Cannes market with Worldwide Movie Belief.
Kelly Greyson (Fortress) and David Cade (Lansky) additionally star within the under-the-radar mission, which wrapped principal images earlier this yr in Alabama. Mukunda Michael Dewil (The Immaculate Room) is directing from his personal script.
The logline reads: “When The Affected person (Phillippe) wakes up in a hospital with none recollection of what occurred to him, he’s issued a life he doesn’t bear in mind by the inscrutable Dr. Rose (Beckinsale). However quickly he involves suspect that he’s being manipulated in an effort to defend a strong politician implicated in a homicide.” Above is a primary look picture from the mission.
Producers are Robert Ogden Barnum of The Barnum Image Firm and Benaroya Photos CEO and Worldwide Movie Belief Founder, Michael Benaroya. Barnum and Benaroya beforehand labored collectively on Margin Name and Lawless. The manufacturing workforce is rounded out by Raja Collins (American Sicario).
IFT and Benaroya Photos are financing alongside Dream Seize Movies, BondIt Media Capital and Buffalo 8 Publish-Manufacturing, and Three Level Capital. BondIt CEO Matthew Helderman, COO Luke Taylor, and VP, Finance Tyler Gould are executive-producing. Michael Sirow and Eric Brenner additionally function EPs.
Benaroya’s gross sales company, Worldwide Movie Belief (IFT), is representing worldwide rights and Gross sales President, Christian de Gallegos, is on the bottom in Cannes to display screen a promo for distributors.
Beckinsale is coming off Amazon and ITV restricted collection The Widow, Paramount+ restricted collection Responsible Celebration and Catherine Hardwicke’s movie Prisoner’s Daughter. Phillippe final yr starred in motion movie The Locksmith and is in manufacturing on Amazon collection Motorheads.
“The Affected person is my third time getting to hitch forces with Ryan and Mukunda,” Robert Ogden Barnum stated, “and simply as on our earlier two movies, it’s been a unbelievable expertise. Mukunda’s stellar script speaks for itself and including Kate into the combo is the cherry on high.”
“With its twisted thriller experience and excellent forged, The Affected person is strictly the kind of mission for which we’re at all times looking out,” Benaroya Photos CEO and IFT Founder Michael Benaroya added. “Ryan and Kate are terrific actors that resonate with distributors worldwide.”
Phillippe is repped by David Schiff at MGMT. Leisure. Beckinsale is repped by Gersh and Untitled.
