Joseph Gordon-Levitt has signed on to star in Pendulum, a brand new function produced by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and directed by Mark Heyman (Black Swan).
The movie will begin principal images in March 2025 in New Mexico. Black Bear is repping worldwide rights on the movie and can introduce the undertaking to patrons on the American Movie Market subsequent week. UTA Impartial Movie Group, CAA Media Finance, and WME Impartial maintain home rights.
Described as a “terrifying new style movie,” the movie follows the younger couple Patrick (Gordon-Levitt) and Abigail on a journey to a new-age retreat in New Mexico, drawn by the potential of therapeutic after a traumatic occasion. Patrick is keen to do something to assist his spouse however turns into distrustful of the retreat’s enigmatic chief at the same time as Abigail falls below her spell. As paranoia builds, the couple should decide if the group’s unconventional non secular practices supply real therapeutic – or masks a terrifying fact that threatens to devour them each.
Aronofsky will produce by way of his Protozoa outfit. Additionally becoming a member of as producers are Jacob Jaffke (MaXXXine, Dream State of affairs, Our bodies Our bodies Our bodies) for Motel Mojave and Dave Caplan (Longlegs) for C2, which will even absolutely finance.
A protracted-time Aronofsky collaborator, Heyman wrote the screenplay for the director’s Black Swan, which grossed $330 million worldwide, and served as a co-producer on The Wrestler and govt producer on mom! Heyman additionally wrote Disney’s 2023 horror flick The Boogeyman. His different credit embody The Skeleton Twins and the TV sequence Unusual Angel at Paramount+.
Aronofsky is presently taking pictures the crime thriller Caught Stealing starring Austin Butler for Sony Photos. The movie follows Hank Thompson (Butler), a burned-out former baseball participant, as he’s unwittingly plunged right into a wild battle for survival within the downtown prison underworld of ’90s NYC. Along with Butler, the movie additionally stars D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Vincent D’Onofrio, Zoë Kravitz, Regina King, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Will Brill, Unhealthy Bunny and Griffin Dunne.
His Protozoa outfit can be answerable for Pablo Larrain’s Jackie, Yann Demange’s White Boy Rick, Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Catch the Honest One, Lance Oppenheim’s Some Type of Heaven, Tobias Lindholm’s The Good Nurse, Jack Begert’s Little Dying, Alex Pritz’s The Territory, and, most lately, Olivier Sarbil’s Viktor.
Jaffke’s Motel Mojave produced Ti West’s X trilogy. C2 Movement Image Group has produced and financed pics similar to Osgood Perkins’ breakout hit Longlegs and Man Ritchie’s Within the Gray.
