EFM Biggie: Netflix Nears Deal In $25M Vary For Eddie Redmayne-Jessica Chastain Thriller ‘The Good Nurse’
EXCLUSIVE: In one of many largest gross sales offers to come back collectively at any EFM, we perceive Netflix is nearing a pre-buy within the area of $25M for The Good Nurse, set to star Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne.
Primarily based on the e-book by Charles Graeber and scripted by 1917 scribe Krysty Wilson-Cairns, Tobias Lindholm (The Hunt) is ready to make his English-language function directing debut on movie, which has had patrons scorching in Berlin.
Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa is producing with FilmNation, which is dealing with gross sales with CAA. Scott Franklin is main for Protozoa. The movie was beforehand being arrange with Lionsgate however hit the open market earlier than EFM.
The pic tells the true story of the pursuit and seize of Santorini Cullen, a nurse who’s thought to be some of the prolific serial killers in historical past. Now known as ‘Angel of Loss of life’, Cullen was a married father who was regarded as a accountable caretaker, however his secret compulsion to take life led to his implication within the deaths of as many as 300 sufferers over 16 years, unfold throughout 9 hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Redmayne will play Cullen, who was caught by two former Newark murder detectives who wouldn’t let go, aided by a nurse who labored alongside Cullen and risked her job and household’s security to cease him. Chastain will play the nurse whose dogged pursuit helped finish the killing spree. Further casting is within the works with shoot being lined up for this 12 months.
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Feted Danish writer-director Lindholm is the common writing accomplice of Thomas Vinterberg and he has additionally directed motion pictures together with A Battle and A Hijacking. Oscar-winner Redmayne is in submit on The Trial Of The Chicago 7. Two-time Oscar nominee Chastain is in submit on 355 and The Eyes Of Tammy Faye.