Martin Freeman, Taylor Schilling, Extra Set For Horror ‘Queen Of Bones’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Julia Butters (The Fabelmans), Jacob Tremblay (Room), Martin Freeman (Fargo) and Taylor Schilling (Pam & Tommy) have been tapped because the leads for the people horror movie Queen of Bones, from Appian Means, Lumanity Productions and Productiveness Media, which has entered manufacturing in Canada.

Queen of Bones follows twin siblings Lily (Butters) and Sam (Tremblay) who stay at a distant homestead with their widowed father, Malcolm (Freeman), a violinmaker in 1931 Oregon. When Lily and Sam discover an Icelandic spell guide within the cellar, they start to suspect a connection between their mom’s dying and darkish forces within the woods. They then embark on a harmful mission to drive their father and his good friend, Ida Could (Schilling), to disclose the reality.

Robert Budreau (Delia’s Gone) is directing from a script by Michael Burgner (The Darkest Nook of Paradise).

Queen of Bones is the newest undertaking to reteam Budreau with Productiveness Media, following their work collectively on titles together with Delia’s Gone, Stockholm and Born to Be Blue. Producers embrace Appian Means’s Jennifer Davisson and Michael Hampton; Budreau via his Lumanity Productions; and Productiveness Media’s William G. Santor (4 Good Days), Doug Murray (Unplugging) and Ryan Reaney (The Immaculate Room, Stockholm).

“I’m thrilled to be working with such a stellar forged to carry this wonderful Despair-era people horror script to life,” stated Budreau. “And I’m equally excited to be collaborating with Appian Means and my previous companions at Productiveness Media.”

“We’re so completely satisfied to be again in enterprise with Robert as director on one other movie for Productiveness Media,” added Santor. “He has an excellent artistic voice, and we’re thrilled to be on this journey with him and our award-winning and collaborative companions at Appian Means.”

Budreau made his function directorial debut with 2006’s That Stunning Someplace, and has extra lately directed such options because the Chet Baker drama Born to Be Blue, starring Ethan Hawke; the crime comedy Stockholm, with Hawke, Noomi Rapace and Mark Robust; and the thriller Delia’s Gone. The latter title, starring Stephan James, Paul Walter Hauser, Travis Fimmel, Marisa Tomei and extra, was launched in theaters nationwide by Vertical Leisure on August 19.

Butters broke out together with her Critics’ Alternative Award-nominated function as Trudi Fraser in Quentin Tarantino’s As soon as Upon a Time… In Hollywood, and might at present be seen within the Netflix tentpole The Grey Man, from administrators Joe and Anthony Russo. The actress has additionally appeared on sequence like Clear and can subsequent be seen in Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans for Common.

Tremblay is a Critics Alternative Award winner and SAG Award nominee finest identified for turns in movies like Room and Marvel. He voiced the lead function in Disney/Pixar’s Luca, and has additionally been seen in big-screen titles like Physician Sleep, Good Boys, The Predator and Earlier than I Wake, amongst others. Extra upcoming initiatives on the a part of the actor embrace Netflix’s animated movie My Father’s Dragon from Cartoon Saloon’s Nora Twomey, Macon Blair’s adaptation of The Poisonous Avenger, Disney’s new, animated The Little Mermaid movie and Travis Knight’s Wildwood for Laika.

Freeman is an Emmy and BAFTA Award winner identified for his portrayal of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit movies who has extra lately appeared in options like Black Panther, Cargo, Captain America: Civil Warfare and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. He stars in FX’s sequence Breeders and likewise lately appeared in Peacock’s miniseries, Angelyne. Different notable TV credit embrace Sherlock, Fargo and BBC’s The Workplace. Freeman will quickly reprise his Marvel function as Everett Ok. Ross in Black Panther: Wakanda Ceaselessly and the Disney+ Marvel sequence, Secret Invasion.

Schilling is an Emmy and Golden Globe nominee finest identified for lead function in Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black who has extra lately been seen in Hulu’s Emmy nominated sequence, Pam & Tommy. The actress has additionally appeared in movies together with The In a single day, Argo, The Fortunate One and Darkish Matter, amongst others. Extra upcoming initiatives embrace the AMC+ animated sequence Pantheon and Jason Katims’ present Expensive Edward for Apple TV+.

Appian Means Productions is a Los Angeles-based movie and tv manufacturing firm based by Leonardo DiCaprio, the place Davisson serves as president of manufacturing. Since its 2001 launch, the corporate has launched such adorned movies as The Revenant, The Wolf of Wall Road, The Aviator, Shutter Island, Out of the Furnace, The Ides of March, Earlier than the Flood, Virunga, Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, The Ivory Sport, The way to Change the World and Catching the Solar, amongst others. Not too long ago launched initiatives included Sea of Shadows with Nationwide Geographic, Ice on Hearth with HBO, Child 90 for Hulu, and Eli Roth’s Fin for Discovery+, in addition to the Apple TV+ sequence Shining Ladies starring Elisabeth Moss. Upcoming releases embrace Roosevelt and Sitting Bull, each for The Historical past Channel, and MGM’s Jim Jones, which is at present in pre-production.

Budreau’s movie and tv manufacturing firm, Lumanity, has produced 10 options, together with Born to be Blue, Stockholm and the lately launched Delia’s Gone.

Established in 2012, Productiveness Media develops, co-produces and funds unique movie and TV content material for the worldwide market. Notable previous releases embrace Rodrigo Garcia’s 4 Good Days, starring Mila Kunis & Glenn Shut, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Finest Authentic Tune; Black Bear, starring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon; Percy Vs Goliath, starring Christopher Walken and Christina Ricci; and Born to Be Blue. Upcoming titles embrace the thriller Unit 234, directed by Andy Tennant and starring Isabelle Fuhrman, Jack Huston, and Don Johnson, in addition to Jonathan Sobol’s sci-fi thriller, tentatively titled Littlemouth, starring Fuhrman, Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis and Josh Hutcherson.

Butters is represented by UTA, Nameless Content material and Peikoff Mahan Legislation Workplace; Tremblay by UTA, Play Administration and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Freeman by CAA, the UK’s Inventive Artists Administration and Felker Toczek Suddleson; Schilling by Gersh, Untitled Leisure and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Budreau by CAA and Echo Lake Leisure; and Burgner by legal professional Hannah Mulderink.