Gemma Arterton to Lead David Blair’s Adventure Thriller ‘Storm Witch’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAlex Ritman Gemma Arterton, the British stage and screen star perhaps best known for playing Bond girl Strawberry Fields in “Quantum of Solace,” is set to star in upcoming period adventure thriller “Storm Witch.” The independent U.K./Ireland co-production, to be directed by David Blair (a BAFTA winner for “Taking Over the Asylum” and “The Street”) from a screenplay by Tristan de Vere Cole, is being launched at the Marche du Film in Cannes later this month, with Myriad Pictures handling pre-sales.
Arterton, who also starred in “The King’s Man” and recently appeared in the Toronto-bowing “The Critic,” will lead a cast that includes Chloe Pirrie (“The Queen’s Gambit”), Stuart Martin (“Army of Thieves”), Kate Dickie (“Prometheus”) Steven Cree (“Outlander”) and Kevin McKidd (“Grey’s Anatomy”).
The film is set to be shot later this year, primarily in Ireland. Set in the 17th century, “Storm Witch” centers on a small coastal community whose villagers find themselves drawn to and suspicious of Morag (Arterton), a remarkable but mysterious woman who is uniquely connected to the nature that surrounds her.
Survival is a daily and all-consuming struggle that is thinly forged from an inclement sea and pushed to the edge of the land by merciless feudal landowners.
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