Oliver
Platt, Molly Parker, Barbara Hershey
And
Aiden Longworth Join “The 9th Life of Louis Drax”
As
Production Begins In Vancouver
VANCOUVER
and LONDON, October 27, 2014 – Miramax, the global film and television
producer and distributor, along with the film’s producers AntColony Films and
Brightlight Pictures announced today the start of principal photography on the
supernatural thriller The 9th Life of Louis Drax starring Jamie Dornan (Fifty
Shades of Grey, The
Fall),
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad, Need for Speed, Triple Nine) and Sarah Gadon (Dracula
Untold, The
Amazing Spider-man 2).
Joining
Dornan, Paul and Gadon in supporting roles are Oliver Platt (X-Men:
First Class, Chef,
Frost/Nixon)
playing Louis Drax’s psychologist, Dr. Perez; Molly Parker (House
of Cards, The
Road) as
Detective Dalton; Barbara Hershey (Black Swan, Falling Down) who will play Violet,
Louis’ grandmother; and Aiden Longworth (Hector and the Search for
Happiness, A
Christmas Story 2)
in the title role of Louis Drax.
The
9th Life of Louis Drax is being directed by Alexandre Aja (Horns, The Hills Have
Eyes, High Tension).
The
feature screenplay, based on Liz Jensen’s best-selling novel of the same title,
was written by Max Minghella. Producers are Tim Bricknell (Breaking and
Entering, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) and Minghella (The Two Faces of
January) of
AntColony Films, Shawn Williamson (The Interview, 50/50) of Brightlight
Pictures and Aja. Rosanne Korenberg (Half
Nelson, Hard
Candy) is
executive producer.
Brightlight
Pictures will handle distribution of the film in Canada and Miramax will
distribute throughout the rest of the world with Sierra/Affinity as the
international sales agent. Zanne Devine, Executive Vice President, Production
and Development, is overseeing the project on behalf of Miramax.
The
9th Life of Louis Drax begins on Louis Drax's 9th birthday,
when he miraculously survives a near fatal fall. His doctor Allan Pascal
(Dornan) finds himself tangled between his professional responsibility and his
growing affections for the boy’s mother (Gadon), a fragile young
beauty. When Louis’ father (Paul) comes under suspicion, Pascal realizes
other mysterious forces may be at work. With echoes ofThe Sixth Sense and Gone
Girl, The
9th Life of Louis Drax is a supernatural thriller filled
with unexpected twists and turns.
The
film is a Canadian/UK co-production.
About
Miramax:
Miramax
is a global film and television studio best known for its highly acclaimed,
original content. The studio’s new development projects include both film and
TV, with the production of The 9th Life of Louis Drax most recently announced starring Jamie
Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey, The Fall), Aaron Paul (Breaking
Bad, Need for Speed, Triple
Nine)
and Sarah Gadon (Dracula Untold, The Amazing Spider-man 2). Together with Sony’s
Screen Gems, Miramax will release Jeremy Garelick’s film The Wedding
Ringer (Kevin
Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco) on January 16, 2015, and the Studio also
recently announced the acquisition of U.S. distribution rights to Mr. Holmes,
directed by Academy Award® winner Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters, Kinsey) and starring Academy
Award® nominees Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings franchise, X-Men franchise) and
Laura Linney (Kinsey, You Can Count on Me, The Savages).
Building
on its unparalleled library of characters and groundbreaking storylines,
Miramax is also currently developing new television series alongside industry
luminaries, with projects that include Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, recently renewed for a second season.
Collectively,
the library of more than 700 motion pictures has received 282 Academy Award® nominations and 68 Oscars® with four Best Picture awards, and includes such celebrated independent films
as Pulp Fiction, No Country for Old Men and City Of
God –
as well as scores of commercial hits such as Chicago, Good Will
Hunting and Bridget
Jones’s Diary.
Since
the purchase of Miramax in 2010 by Qatar Holding, together with the investor
group led by Miramax Chairman Thomas J. Barrack, Jr.’s Colony Capital, the
studio’s world-class global distribution team has successfully brought this
renowned collection to existing and emerging platforms in nearly every country
in the world.
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About
AntColony Films:
AntColony
Films was incorporated in the U.K. in 2008 by Timothy Bricknell and Max
Minghella. Born from the legacy of Mirage, the production company run by Sydney
Pollack and Anthony Minghella, Tim and Max have gone on to produce a variety of
work including HBO’s The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Channel 4’s The
Fear,
BAFTA winner Eric & Ernie and, most recently, Hossein Amini’s
directorial debut The Two Faces of January.
About
Brightlight Pictures:
Brightlight
Pictures develops, packages and produces independent feature films and
television projects. Brightlight's Chairman, Shawn Williamson, has produced
more than 90 productions in the last 15 years and over 35 productions since
launching Brightlight in 2001 including White Noise (Michael Keaton)
which has grossed over $100 million since its world-wide theatrical release in
2005. Recently, Williamson has worked as an executive producer on the feature
film The Interview (Seth Rogen, James Franco) for Columbia Pictures and
the television series Witches Of East End (Julia Ormond,
Jenna Dewan-Tatum) for Fox 21. His recent producer credits include the feature
film Horns (Daniel
Radcliffe) for Mandalay and Red Granite Pictures; 50/50 (Seth Rogen,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt;) and The Company You Keep, a Sony Pictures
Classics release for spring 2013 directed by Robert Redford and starring Robert
Redford and Shia LaBeouf. Other feature producing credits include The
Possession(Jeffrey
Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick) for Mandate Pictures and Lionsgate Films; White
Noise 2: The Light (Nathan
Fillion, Katee Sackhoff) with Gold Circle Films; In The Name Of The
King (Jason
Statham;) 88 Minutes (Al Pacino;) Wicker Man (Nicolas Cage) for
Nu Image/Millennium Films and Emmett Furla Films; Slither with Gold Circle
Films and Universal and Apollo 18 for The Weinstein Company.
Brightlight's
UK/Canada feature co-production Fifty Dead Men Walking (Ben Kingsley, Jim
Sturgess, Kevin Zegers) had its world premiere as a Gala Presentation at the
Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008 and was released
theatrically in the summer of 2009. Brightlight also producedFrankie &
Alice (Halle
Berry, Stellan Skarsgard) and the feature film Gunless, a comedy western
co-produced with Niv Fichman's Rhombus Media and distributed by Alliance films
starring Paul Gross, Sienna Guillory and Graham Greene.
About
Sierra/Affinity:
Sierra/Affinity is a leading independent film finance, production and
foreign sales company, consistently delivering high-quality, commercially
viable feature films for a global audience. Led by Nick Meyer and Marc
Schaberg, Sierra/Affinity capitalizes on the ever-evolving global film
marketplace, representing sales of third-party films as well as its own
productions designed to appeal to both the North American and global
marketplaces. In addition to representing sales of third party films, the
company acts as the exclusive sales agent for films developed and produced by
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, OddLot Entertainment, Bold Films and Sierra
Pictures and its partner, Incentive Filmed Entertainment. In October 2012,
Sierra/Affinity leveraged its international film and distribution capabilities
to enter into a partnership with leading global TV program distributor Engine
Entertainment to jointly launch Sierra/Engine Television designed to globally
distribute television productions.
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