Darren Aronofsky and Mark Heyman have labored collectively a number of occasions through the years. Heyman was Aronofsky’s assistant when he made The Fountain, then he was the co-producer on The Wrestler, a author on Black Swan, and an govt producer on Mom! So now that Heyman is about to make his characteristic directorial debut with the horror movie Pendulum, it’s good to see that Aronofsky is there to again him up, producing the movie via his firm Protozoa. Again in October, we heard that Joseph Gordon-Levitt of The Darkish Knight Rises and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F had signed on to star within the movie. Phoebe Dynevor of Bridgerton and Honest Play joined in March, and Norman Reedus of The Strolling Useless and The Bikeriders was confirmed to be within the forged only a few days in the past. Now, Deadline reviews that Jacki Weaver, who earned Oscar nominations for her performances in Animal Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook, can also be within the movie.
Described as a “terrifying new genre film,” Pendulum will inform the next story: Younger couple Patrick (Gordon-Levitt) and Abigail (Dynevor) journey to a new-age retreat in New Mexico, drawn by the potential for therapeutic after a traumatic occasion. Patrick is keen to do something to assist his spouse, however turns into distrustful of the retreat’s enigmatic chief at the same time as Abigail falls beneath her spell. As paranoia builds, the couple should decide if the group’s unconventional religious practices provide real therapeutic – or masks a terrifying fact that threatens to eat them each. Reedus’s character is “the couple’s friend who introduces them to the retreat,” whereas Weaver performs much-revered mystical healer Ella-Rose, the enigmatic chief of the new-age retreat.
Along with Aronofsky, the movie is being produced by Jacob Jaffke of Motel Mojave and Dave Caplan of C2, who may also absolutely finance. Filming is presently underway in New Mexico.
Since co-writing the BAFTA-nominated screenplay for Black Swan, Heyman has additionally co-written the comedy drama The Skeleton Twins (with director Craig Johnson) and director Rob Savage’s Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman (the place the opposite writers included A Quiet Place screenwriters Scott Beck and Bryan Woods). Heyman additionally created the Paramount+ collection Unusual Angel, which was about “a rocket scientist in 1940s Los Angeles who was secretly the disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley.”
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