‘12 Years A Slave’ & ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Outfit River Road Joins Identity Drama ‘Unicorns’, First Look Revealed With CAA Handling At EFM
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: 12 Years A Slave and Brokeback Mountain outfit River Road Entertainment has joined Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd’s feature Unicorns as producer and financier.
CAA Media Finance will be selling the project at the upcoming EFM in Berlin. The cross-cultural romance, directed by The Swimmers filmmaker El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd, from a screenplay by Floyd, is now in post-production.
Today, we can also reveal that the film will co-star emerging British Indian RnB artist Jason Patel alongside the previously announced Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody).
Set against a secretive London subculture, the film follows a queer performer (Patel) living a double life and a single father (Hardy) working as a mechanic, whose lives collide after a chance encounter. “When Laura Windows, our casting director, introduced us to Jason, we knew we’d found our unicorn.
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