Joseph Gordon-Levitt is about to star in director Mark Heyman’s horror movie Pendulum, produced by Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky and Mark Heyman have labored collectively a number of instances 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 government producer on Mom! So now that Heyman is about to make his function 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. A press launch despatched out right now has additionally revealed that Joseph Gordon-Levitt of The Darkish Knight Rises and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F has signed on to star within the movie, which is about to start out filming in New Mexico subsequent March.
Pendulum will inform the next story: Younger couple Patrick (Gordon-Levitt) and Abigail journey to a new-age retreat in New Mexico, drawn by the potential for therapeutic after a traumatic occasion. Patrick is prepared to do something to assist his spouse, however turns into distrustful of the retreat’s enigmatic chief whilst Abigail falls underneath her spell. As paranoia builds, the couple should decide if the group’s unconventional religious practices provide real therapeutic – or masks a terrifying reality that threatens to devour them each. It is going to be fascinating to see who finally ends up signing on to play Abigail and the retreat’s enigmatic chief reverse Gordon-Levitt’s Patrick.
Along with Aronofsky, the movie is being produced by Jacob Jaffke of Motel Mojave and Dave Caplan of C2, who can even totally finance.
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+ sequence 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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