EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Working Title Films have set Demi Moore and Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood‘s Margaret Qualley to star in The Substance, with Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) directing her script.
She is also producing alongside Working Title partners Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan.This will mark the French filmmaker’s first studio feature.
She made her helming debut on Revenge, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto and Sundance a few months later, and was then released by Neon.Specifics on The Substance are being kept under wraps, but Deadline hears it is Fargeat’s explosive feminist take on body horror.
Production begins in Paris this May.Moore most recently lent her voice to QCode’s podcast Dirty Diana, which is being adapted into an Amazon series that Moore will executive produce and star in.
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