Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy, Salma Hayek Pinault and Brendan Fraser are set to star in the upcoming film "Sacrifice" directed by Romain Gavras ("Athena"), son of acclaimed filmmaker Costa Gavras ("Z", "Missing"), who is making his first English-language film. More actors are expected to be cast shortly.
The script is penned by Gavras and Will Arbery. The film will focus on a high end charity gala that gets raided by a violent group of radicals on a mystical quest to fulfill a prophecy. Taylor-Joy will star as the passionate antagonist, while Evans will play the movie star she has tapped to die, along with the two others.
Filming is expected to begin in September. Iconoclast and Robert Walak, the president of Iconoclast's Film and TV division, will produce with Gavras. Taylor-Joy and Evans also produce, with Arbery as executive producer.
Here's what Gavras had to say about the project:
"It came from a very simple idea, which is every time you go to those events, whether it’s in Cannes, whether it's a charity event and where you have all those people, the mischievous side of me, and I think the audience as well when they're watching those events, they kind of want something to go really horribly wrong. When you see glitzy people and all the shininess and all that stuff, you want that moment to be twisted, right? I was raised myself on Greek mythology, instead of being fed new movies when I was a kid, my parents were telling me these Greek tales, where a mom eats her kids and of sacrifices to volcanoes. Those things fed me and led to the idea of having a group of kids that have a very specific agenda that comes from a very mythological kind of belief system. There is the fondness of satire and Will is amazing at the sharpness of the tone of the characters and the humanity of them. I am so excited by our cast."
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