Film Independent Sets Cast For Live Reading Of ‘Conclave’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Film Independent is partnering with the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Focus Features on a Conclave live read, to take place on Monday, February 10.
The cast assembled includes The Bear‘s Ayo Edebiri and Lionel Boyce, Cooper Koch (Monsters), Josh Gad (Book of Mormon), Jason Mantzoukas (Big Mouth), Patton Oswalt (Young Adult) and Eugenio Derbez (CODA), along with the film’s Golden Globe-winning screenwriter Peter Straughan, who will serve as narrator.
Filmmaker Edward Berger is participating as guest director for the special one-night-only event. Based on a novel by Robert Harris, Conclave is a political thriller set within the Vatican that follows Cardinal Lomeli (Ralph Fiennes), the Dean of the College of Cardinals, as he oversees a secretive papal election following the sudden death of the Pope.
As 118 cardinals from around the world gather to choose the next leader of the Catholic Church, tensions rise, alliances form and break, and hidden secrets emerge.
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