Michael Pearce’s Beast Traps a Love Story Inside a Horror Film
John Squires
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Known for his short films, acclaimed writer/director Michael Pearce is set to make his directorial debut with Beast, which sounds to be enough of a horror film to warrant coverage here on Dread. As the headline suggests, it’s being billed as a horror love story, so to speak, and we’ve got casting news for ya today.
Deadline reports that Johnny Flynn (below) and Jessie Buckley are in advance talks to star in the project. A love story trapped within a horror film, Beast is a dark fairytale about an emotionally isolated woman who comes under the spotlight of an island community when she falls in love with a man who is suspected of a series of brutal murders.
Agile Films and Stray Bear Films are co-producing, with Kristian Brodie, Lauren Dark, and Ivana MacKinnon on board as producers. The BFI and Film4 have developed and will finance the film.
More on this one as we learn it.
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