EXCLUSIVE: CAA Media Finance has picked up North American sales rights to the folk-thriller Inland, starring Mark Rylance.
14.10.2022 - 18:39 / variety.com
Manori Ravindran International Editor Mark Rylance-led thriller “Inland” has been picked up for international sales by Paris-based sales agent Wide ahead of its BFI London Film Festival premiere. Produced by Black Twist Films, the film stars Rory Alexander, Mark Rylance and Kathryn Hunter and plays in the official selection of the U.K. festival. “Inland” is a modern folktale that explores the fractured identity of a young man after the mysterious disappearance of his mother. Guided by a father figure and old friends who care deeply, his journey through the dreamlike spaces of rural England brings him face to face with the loss that haunts him in ways he could never have expected.
The pic marks the directorial debut of director-screenwriter Fridtjof Ryder, and stars Eleanor Holliday, Alexander Lincoln, Nell Williams and Shaun Dingwall. It is produced by Henry Richmond, Louis Paine and Ryder, in association with Twenty 20 Media, Fablemaze, Fatcontman, Dva Films, Shakespeare Road and Zebrafish Media.
Executive producers include Trudie Styler, Sam Tromans, Ian Dawson, Zak Brilliant, Guy Davies, Matt Cook, Toby Cook, Thomas Atherton, Dougal Mackenzie Smith, Shaun Dingwall and Mark Rylance. A joint statement from the Wide team reads: “We are very happy to represent ‘Inland’ by Fridtjof Ryder. A first time director’s elegantly shot thriller, which throughout an oneiric path seeks to trace back the scars of a revenant young man and his paternal figure in the whirlwind of a barely spoken but deeply sympathetic visual approach. We are deeply excited to premiere the film at London Film Festival.” Rylance said: “This film wakes me at night. It contains a very old connection to the Green Man rituals of Carnivale, when someone
EXCLUSIVE: CAA Media Finance has picked up North American sales rights to the folk-thriller Inland, starring Mark Rylance.
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