Julia Roberts To Lead Luca Guadagnino Thriller ‘After The Hunt’ For Amazon MGM Studios; Nora Garrett Scripting
26.03.2024 - 19:45
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: After coming together at warp speed over the past month, Deadline hears that the Imagine Entertainment package After the Hunt from screenwriter Nora Garrett has landed at Amazon MGM Studios with Julia Roberts attached to star and Luca Guadagnino on board to direct.
Garrett penned the script, and Brian Grazer and Allan Mandelbaum will produce for Imagine Entertainment, with Call Me By Your Name Oscar nominee Guadagnino producing through his Frenesy banner. Garrett will also exec produce along with Imagine’s Karen Lunder.
The film is an intense dramatic thriller about a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light. Allan Mandelbaum brought the script into Imagine and worked with CAA to get it to top talent like Guadagnino and Roberts.
Since landing at Imagine Entertainment, which has been developing it for some time, the spec has been one of the more talked about scripts in recent memory with several agents telling Deadline, ” It’s one of the better scripts I’ve read since the writers strike ended” leading to a number of top tier directors trying to get a meeting with Imagine co-founder Brian Grazer to get the job. Following a recent meeting before the Oscars, Guadagnino locked up the directing job after impressing Grazer with his take.
Next up was locking in the talent and while there are a number great roles in the script, the older professor role had every A-list actress lining up with Julia Roberts, fresh off another massive hit with Leave The World Behind, at the top of the list. Once Roberts gave her commitment, the package became red
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