Cate Blanchett Will Play a Renegade Nun In New Movie, 'The New Boy'

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Cate Blanchett is adding one more movie to her upcoming project list. Deadline reports that the 52-year-old actress is set to star in The New Boy, on top of executive producing through her Scarlett Pictures company. Click inside to read more about the movie… Warwick Thornton will write and direct the film, which will also star Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair.

The movie will begin filming in October in South Australia. “What a joy to finally be collaborating with Warwick — a filmmaker whose warmth, wit and humanity we have admired for so very long,” Cate shared in a statement. “We can’t wait to be on the ground with him and the wonderful Kath Shelper to realize this startling story.” Set in 1940s Australia, the film depicts depicts the mesmeric story of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Blanchett).

The new boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival. “The idea for the story of this little boy has been flickering in my imagination for a long time,” Warwick added. “Kath and I are beyond excited to be working with Cate and the Dirty Films mob to put him up on the big screen where he belongs.” Last month, it was revealed that Cate would be starring in Pedro Almodovar‘s first English-language movie.