EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and Golden Globe nominees Greta Lee (Previous Lives) and Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers) have inked offers to star in My Notes on Mars, a sci-fi romance marking the primary English-language characteristic from famend Hungarian filmmaker Lili Horvát (Preparations to Be Collectively for an Unknown Interval of Time).
Set to shoot between Budapest and Vienna subsequent spring, Horvát’s newest facilities on Margot (Lee), a superb younger scientist with a troubled marriage, who disappears inexplicably whereas climbing together with her husband Sam (Scott) and a gaggle of pals. Just a few weeks later, she miraculously reappears the day of her personal memorial service. Margot is clearly not the identical as earlier than the accident. However, Sam sees his spouse’s miraculous reappearance as a second likelihood.
For Horvát, the movie is “a narrative concerning the labyrinthine human psyche, concerning the ever-changing faces of affection. To begin over a wedding, to rediscover the opposite, to fall in love once more — our story is concerning the grueling realization of this unimaginable want.”
Noting that she’s “significantly drawn to characters who dare to make stunning, unconventional decisions in each their personal {and professional} lives,” the filmmaker added, “I really feel that that is true for Greta and Andrew as nicely. It’s an unimaginable honor for me that I can accompany them on the journey of making Margot and Sam Fogel.”
Horvát will direct from her personal script and produce with Dóra Csernátony below their Poste Restante banner, along with Oscar nominee Emilie Georges and Naima Abed (Name Me By Your Title, Drift) for Paradise Metropolis, Anne Carey (Can You Ever Forgive Me?, twentieth Century Ladies), Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu and Bady Minck of Amour Fou (Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey Into the Desert) and Mirsad Purivatra and Jovan Marjanovic of Obala Artwork Middle (Triangle of Unhappiness, Sieranevada). The movie has obtained help from the Nationwide Movie Institute of Hungary.
In her personal assertion, Horvát’s producing associate Csernátony mentioned, “I see My Notes on Mars as a really natural step in Lili’s work, and I’m so excited to see her distinctive imaginative and prescient elevated by the superb abilities which have joined us.”
Lee gave the most effective performances of final yr in A24’s romantic drama Previous Lives, incomes the Santa Barbara Movie Competition’s Virtuoso Award for her work, in addition to nominations on the Golden Globes, Critics’ Alternative Awards, Impartial Spirit Awards and Gotham Awards. In any other case maybe greatest identified for her Emmy-nominated work on The Morning Present, the actress will subsequent be seen in Disney’s Tron: Ares and Kathryn Bigelow’s still-untitled new movie for Netflix.
Scott is presently up for 2 Emmys because the producer and star of Netflix’s stellar Steven Zaillian miniseries Ripley. Previous to the crime thriller’s April debut, he was seen staring reverse Paul Mescal in Andrew Haigh’s acclaimed romantic fantasy All of Us Strangers, a Searchlight title for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. Most just lately tapped to star within the D-Day pic Stress for StudioCanal and Working Title, he’ll even be seen arising in Netflix’s Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller.
Horvát broke out as the author, director and producer of Preparations to Be Collectively for an Unknown Interval of Time, a romantic drama chosen as Hungary’s entry for Finest Worldwide Function on the 93rd Academy Awards. Telling the story of Márta, a 40-year-old neurosurgeon who falls in love and leaves her profession in America behind to return to Budapest and begin a brand new life, the movie earned an Impartial Spirit Award for Finest Worldwide Movie in 2021. Previous to that mission, the filmmaker made her characteristic debut with drama The Wednesday Little one.
Lee is represented by UTA, Leisure 360, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman; Scott by CAA, United Brokers, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; and Horvát by UTA.
