EXCLUSIVE: After setting the internet on fire Sunday when they presented at the Oscars together, Academy Award nominees Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield have now found their own project to co-star in. Sources tell Deadline that the two are in negotiations to star in StudioCanal’s We Live In Time. John Crowley is on board to direct, with Nick Payne penning the script. StudioCanal developed the script and will produce with Sunny March.
Leah Clarke, Adam Ackland with Guy Heeley are producing with Benedict Cumberbatch executive producer.
Plot details are being kept under wraps other then it being described as a funny, deeply moving and immersive love story. Ff deals close, the plan is to shoot later this year. EVP Global Production Ron Halpern and SVP Global Production Joe Naftalin are overseeing for StudioCanal.
While Pugh and Garfield have not been in a project together, fans of both couldn’t stop talking about the two on social media after they presented the Screenplay Oscars together. Little did they know something was already in the works.
We Live In Time would be added to Pugh’s already busy schedule after a year that she featured in a slew of films including Netflix’s The Wonder. She can be seen next in A Good Person, and also has Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer bowing this summer and Dune Part Two in November. Next up on her shooting schedule is Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts, reprising her role as Yelena Belova.
Pugh is repped by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
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EXCLUSIVE: In-demand Oscar nominee Florence Pugh (Dune: Part Two) is set to lead the psychological thriller The Pack, we can reveal.
Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies) is set direct and co-star in the film, which will be one of the hottest packages at next week’s American Film Market.
The film, which begins shooting in March, follows a group of documentarians who brave the remote wilderness of Alaska in an effort to save a nearly extinct species of wolves. When the crew is brought back together at a prestigious awards ceremony, tensions flare as a deadly truth threatens to unravel their work. The team lived through the harsh elements of the wild but will a secret they share survive the night?
Jennifer Fox (Michael Clayton) will produce the original script written by Rose Gilroy with 30West financing and executive producing. The project has echoes of Fox-produced thriller Nightcrawler.
Pugh’s credits include the upcoming features The Wonder, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. She is coming off Don’t Worry Darling, Midsommar and Little Women.
Pugh is represented by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
Source: Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is developing a limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel East of Eden, with Zoe Kazan writing and exec producing and Florence Pugh attached to star and co-produce.
Sources told Deadline that the streamer landed the package following a competitive bidding war. Anonymous Content and Endeavor Content are co-producing the series as part of a partnership unveiled in March.
The limited series adaptation will explore the novel’s themes of trauma and repair; love and betrayal; duty and free will. The series will sketch an intimate portrait of the Trask family against the backdrop of huge historical forces — or, as Steinbeck put it, “the story of my country and the story of me.”
“Florence Pugh is our dream Cathy; I can’t imagine a more thrilling actor to bring this character to life. Writing this limited series over the last two years has been the creative highpoint of my life. I hope that with our partners at Netflix, Anonymous Content, and Endeavor Content, we can do justice to this material — and shed new light on it for a 21st century audience.”
The producers will now look to cast its Trask family as well as find a director to helm the series.
As for Pugh, East of Eden is one of a number of current projects for the Oscar-nominated actress. She can be seen next in Don’t Worry Darling, which was directed by Olivia Wilde and also stars Harry Styles and Chris Pine. She also has The Wonder for Netflix; A Good Person, which bows next spring; and Christopher Nolan’s next pic Oppenheimer, which comes out next July.
Pugh is repped by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners