EXCLUSIVE: The Veterans is launching worldwide gross sales on upcoming UK interval comedy Fackham Corridor at Toronto and has unveiled first members of the ensemble forged.
First signings embrace Hero Fiennes Tiffin (The Lady King), Thomasin McKenzie (Final Evening in Soho), Emma Laird (A Haunting In Venice) and Katherine Waterston, who seems on this 12 months’s TIFF title The Finish We Begin From alongside Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Written by comic Jimmy Carr in his screenwriting function debut with Patrick Carr and the Dawson Brothers (The Bubble), Fackham Corridor pokes enjoyable at conventional interval dramas like Downton Abbey and Gosford Park. The manufacturing is described as being “in the tradition of classic joke-a-minute spoof comedies like The Naked Gun series and Airplane!”.
Fiennes Tiffin will play a brand new porter who embarks on an unlikely relationship with the youngest daughter (McKenzie) of a distinguished UK household. On the similar time, rivalries are spilling over within the Davenport household, led by Lord and Girl Davenport (Waterston) as additionally they climate the epic failure of the marriage of their eldest daughter (Laird) to her caddish cousin.
Bafta-nominated director Jim O’Hanlon is hooked up to direct. Further casting is underway and principal pictures will start within the UK in early 2024.
Fackham Corridor is being produced by Kris Thykier (I Give It A Yr, KickAss) and Danny Perkins (Best Days), below their three way partnership comedy label Mews Movies.
Within the first vital deal introduced throughout TIFF, Bleecker Road has acquired U.S. rights for the movie.
Bleecker Road’s Andrew Karpen and Kent Sanderson are government producing alongside Nameless Content material’s Nick Shumaker and David Levine and Jimmy Carr and Patrick Carr.
The deal was negotiated by Kent Sanderson and Avy Eschenasy on behalf of Bleecker Road with Nameless Content material and CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers.
“The British Film Industry does two things very well. Period drama and comedy. Now we didn’t have time to write two movies, so we’ve had to mash the genres together… I’m just slightly worried that if you say Fackham Hall in a posh English accent it might be misconstrued, hopefully that won’t be a problem,” stated Jimmy Carr.
O’Hanlon, who was Bafta-nominated for 2020 Amazon comedy Disaster, praised the “brilliant script.”
“Fackham Corridor is that rarest of uncommon hen’s tooth – a genuinely humorous, fiendishly intelligent interval comedy which even on the web page makes you snort your tea out of a number of orifices without delay, while nonetheless making you care massively for the younger couple on the centre of all of the insanity.“
The Veterans’ TIFF slate additionally contains Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy, starring Cate Blanchett and Aswan Reid which had its world premiere in Cannes and can have its North American premiere at TIFF in addition to Return to Silent Hill and Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez that are each at the moment in post-production.
Fiennes Tiffin is represented by The Artists Partnership, CAA, Vybe Trybe and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett and Kole. McKenzie is repped by UTA, Untitled Leisure and Gail Cowan. Waterston by LARK, UTA and Silver Lining Leisure. Laird by United Brokers within the UK, CAA, Nameless Content material, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich & Gellman.
O’Hanlon is repped by The Artists Partnership and The Gersh Company. The Dawson Brothers are repped by Lily Williams at Curtis Brown and Tom Lassally at 3 Arts. Jimmy Carr by Hannah Chambers at Chambers Administration.
