Imelda Staunton, Johnny Flynn & Dominic West Among New Additions To Pablo Trapero’s ‘& Sons’ As Drama Lines Up Pre-Sales
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Bankside Films has announced additional cast, pre-sales and new producers for & Sons, director Pablo Trapero’s adaptation of the novel by David Gilbert.
Imelda Staunton (Downton Abbey), Johnny Flynn (Ripley), Dominic West (The Affair), Anna Geislerová (Anthropoid) and Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) are new additions to the project, for which current pre-sales include Airlines (Penny Black Media), Australia & New Zealand (Transmission), Bulgaria (Beta), Eastern Europe PTV (HBO), Former Yugoslavia (MCF), Hungary (Cinetel), Middle East (Front Row) and Spain (Divisa Red).
Elevation Pictures’ Christina Piovesan and Emily Kulasa have joined as co-producers, with Tricky Knot and Maven Screen Media boarding as executive producers.
As previously announced, Bill Nighy, Noah Jupe and George MacKay also star. In & Sons, Nighy plays Andrew — or A.N. Dyer, as he is known to the world — a famous novelist whose first novel became an instant classic and created a cult following around its elusive author.
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