A24 has taken acquired US distribution rights to Element Pictures’ filthy and comedic romance Pillion, starring Harry Melling and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Alexander Skarsgård.
The debut feature from BAFTA-nominated writer/director Harry Lighton (Wren Boys) follows an impossibly handsome leader of a bike gang and the wallflower he takes on as his submissive.
Production wrapped this summer. The screenplay was developed with BBC Film and is based on Adam Mars-Jones’ Box Hill which was the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Nobel Prize winner.
Pillion is an Element Pictures production financed by BBC Film, BFI (awarding National Lottery funding), in association with Fremantle, Picturehouse Entertainment and September Film who will handle distribution in the UK and Benelux respectively.
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