EXCLUSIVE: Even as The Lost Bus set to bow at the Toronto Film Festival this weekend, Paul Greengrass is already gearing up his next high-profile project, as sources tell Deadline that Katherine Waterston is joining the untitled pic from the Oscar-nominated director.
Sources also confirm to Deadline that Andrew Garfield has officially come on to star, with Focus Features on board to distribute.
Deadline first reported this past spring that the package was coming together with Garfield to star and Focus the likely landing spot. Insiders say those deals have now closed.
Greengrass is directing with Jason Blum producing through Blumhouse, alongside Greg Goodman, Joanna Kaye and Greengrass. Lars Sylvest will also produce through Thank You Pictures and Joe Neurauter will produce through Supernix. Production is set to start this fall.
In the pic, Garfield plays a legendary leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II. As war burns across England, he forms an army of the people to face the king’s might in a fight for justice and survival.
Waterston is coming off the acclaimed Paramount+ series The Agency, where she stars opposite Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright and Richard Gere. The show earned strong reviews and was renewed for a second season by the streamer; Waterston recently wrapped production on the shoot. She also has the comedy Fackham Hall with Damian Lewis.
She is repped by UTA, Strand Entertainment and Lark Management in the UK and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. Garfield is with CAA and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern and Gordon & French, and Greengrass is repped by CAA.
Greengrass’ next project is The Lost Bus (starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera) for Apple Original Films, which will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday, followed by a theatrical release before debuting on the platform.
Focus is coming off a strong festival weekend that included Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, as well as the Chloé Zhao pic Hamnet starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. They also have Ronan Day-Lewis’ directorial debut Anemone, starring and co-written by Daniel Day-Lewis, as well as Song Sung Blue, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson.