Elizabeth Banks is to star in writer/director Christine Jeffs’ medical suspense drama A Mistake, based on the novel by Carl Shuker.
Cornerstone Films will launch international sales in Cannes on the GFC Films production, and is co-repping the U.S. together with UTA Independent Film Group.
Principal Photography starts August 15 in New Zealand.The story centers on Elizabeth Taylor (Banks), a gifted surgeon and the only female consultant at her hospital.
But while operating on a young woman, something goes horribly wrong. In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, Taylor’s colleagues begin to close ranks, and her life is thrown into disarray.
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