Australian actress to lead feature film based on Joshua Henkin’s book.
Silent Hill and The Shack actress Radha Mitchell will lead the cast of The World Without You, a feature adaptation of Joshua Henkin’s novel.
Marking the directing debut of Damon Shalit, the novel has been adapted by screenwriter Dan Pulick. The plot explores how a family cope with the death of a son, a journalist killed on assignment in Iraq.
Shalit produces with Bradley LaRocco and Charles Mudd for Sb Productions. Mitchell will star and serve as an executive producer. Valerie McCaffrey is casting director.
The cast is rounded out by Chris Mulkey (Captain Phillips), Perrey Reeves (Famous In Love), James Tupper (Big Little Lies), Pj Byrne (Wolf Of Wall Street), Annika Marks (Anguish), Lyndie Greenwood (Sleepy Hollow), Lynn Cohen (Hunger Games), and Suzanne C. Johnson (Empty Space).
Shooting will get underway in Chicago next week.
Silent Hill and The Shack actress Radha Mitchell will lead the cast of The World Without You, a feature adaptation of Joshua Henkin’s novel.
Marking the directing debut of Damon Shalit, the novel has been adapted by screenwriter Dan Pulick. The plot explores how a family cope with the death of a son, a journalist killed on assignment in Iraq.
Shalit produces with Bradley LaRocco and Charles Mudd for Sb Productions. Mitchell will star and serve as an executive producer. Valerie McCaffrey is casting director.
The cast is rounded out by Chris Mulkey (Captain Phillips), Perrey Reeves (Famous In Love), James Tupper (Big Little Lies), Pj Byrne (Wolf Of Wall Street), Annika Marks (Anguish), Lyndie Greenwood (Sleepy Hollow), Lynn Cohen (Hunger Games), and Suzanne C. Johnson (Empty Space).
Shooting will get underway in Chicago next week.
- 7/6/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Radha Mitchell, last seen faith-based film The Shack alongside Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer, has been tapped to star in Sb Productions’ drama The World Without You, from first-time director Damon Shalit. The film, based on the Joshua Henkin's best-selling novel and adapted by Dan Pulick, explores how a family copes with the death of son, a journalist killed on assignment in Iraq. During a weekend memorial service, old hurts and dark secrets emerge that threaten to…...
- 7/5/2017
- Deadline
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Studio/Run Time: The Weinstein Company/90 mins.
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Writers: Ernest Cline, Adam F. Goldberg, Dan Pulick
Cinematographer: Lukas Ettlin
Starring: Sam Huntington, Christopher Marquette, Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel
Studio/Run Time: The Weinstein Company/90 mins.
Feature-length inside joke short on laughs, big on heart
It doesn't necessarily matter that Fanboys, a lukewarm comedy about five Star Wars devotees, has been finished for two years; it would have been outdated on its planned August 2007 release. Generation Y has had to suffer through Sw mania for a solid decade and a half, starting when George Lucas cut and pasted CGI alien jazz singers into his original trilogy. The funniest joke presented by the film is that the controversial media mogul once inspired people to devour his work to this obsessive extent. Past that, watching the reenacted glee that we once had for the premiere Sci-Fi franchise before 1999 is like a diabetic remembering her first Pixie Stick. ...
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- Pastemagazine.com
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