CAA Media Finance Nabs North American For Mark Rylance Thriller ‘Inland’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: CAA Media Finance has picked up North American gross sales rights to the folk-thriller Inland, starring Mark Rylance.

Billed as a “fashionable folktale,” the movie explores a younger man’s fractured identification after his mom’s mysterious disappearance. Guided by a father determine and outdated associates who care deeply, his journey by way of the dreamlike areas of rural England brings him head to head with the loss that haunts him in methods he may by no means have anticipated.

Inland is the primary function from writer-director Fridtjof Ryder. The movie had its World Premiere on the 66th BFI London Movie Competition, the place it featured within the competition’s Official Choice class. The movie has additionally been longlisted for five awards at this 12 months’s British Unbiased Movie Awards (BIFAs).

Rylance can also be an Govt Producer on the undertaking and he stars alongside Rory Alexander, Kathryn Hunter, Eleanor Holliday, Alexander Lincoln, Nell Williams, and Shaun Dingwall.

The movie was produced by Henry Richmond, Louis Paine, and Fridtjof Ryder in affiliation with Twenty 20 Media, Fablemaze, Fatcontman, Dva Movies, Shakespeare Street, and Zebrafish Media. Govt producers are Trudie Styler, Sam Tromans, Ian Dawson, Zak Good, Man Davies, Matt Prepare dinner, Toby Prepare dinner, Thomas Atherton, Dougal Mackenzie Smith, and Shaun Dingwall.

The Paris-based gross sales agent Broad is representing worldwide gross sales on the pic.

Of the movie, Mark Rylance mentioned: “This movie wakes me at evening. It incorporates a really outdated connection to the Inexperienced Man rituals of Carnivale when somebody would gown up because the Inexperienced Man and emerge from the deep forest to rampage by way of the city. This model is de facto scary and highly effective, correctly. There’s a stunning expression of the unconscious vitality of nature in man. It jogs my memory of Eraser Head and Blue Velvet and movies I liked however don’t see a lot of anymore. I’m disturbed and excited by it without delay.”

In Deadline’s evaluation, Anna Smith described Inland as a “outstanding calling card with performances to savor.”