Amazon Set To Acquire Oscar Winner Emerald Fennell’s Next Film ‘Saltburn’ With Jacob Elordi, Barry Keoghan & Rosamund Pike
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Amazon is in final negotiations to pre-buy rights to in-demand Cannes market package Saltburn, the next film from Oscar winner Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman).Jacob Elordi (Euphoria), Barry Keoghan (The Batman) and Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) are attached to star in MRC’s Saltburn.
Principal photography is set to begin this summer in the UK.Plot details are being kept under wraps on the project, but we know it is a “story of obsession”.
Pic will be produced by Fennell and LuckyChap Entertainment’s Josey McNamara, Tom Ackerley and Margot Robbie.The film is Fennell’s follow-up to Promising Young Woman, which was nominated for multiple Oscars and won Best Original Screenplay for Fennell.We understand this will be a world rights deal in a pact with Knives Out outfit MRC.
No word yet from Amazon or MRC but the deal gets the former on the board at the Cannes market following splashy streamer deals from Netflix, which picked up Emily Blunt starrer Pain Hustlers, and Apple, which acquired Jessie Buckley-Riz Ahmed drama Fingernails.
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