Cate Blanchett Set To Star in and Produce a 1940s Australia Set Film THE NEW BOY
Cate Blanchett is set to star in and produce an upcoming film from award-winning Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton titled The New Boy.
The film is set in 1940s Australia, and the story follows a “9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.”
Blanchett is joined by Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair and she said in a statement: “What a joy to finally be collaborating with Warwick — a filmmaker whose warmth, wit and humanity we have admired for so very long. We can’t wait to be on the ground with him and the wonderful Kath Shelper to realize this startling story.”
Thornton added: “The idea for the story of this little boy has been flickering in my imagination for a long time. Kath and I are beyond excited to be working with Cate and the Dirty Films mob to put him up on the big screen where he belongs.”
The New Boy is set to begin filming this October on location in South Australia and is scheduled to wrap production at the end of 2022. This film sounds like it will tell an interesting story and I imagine Blanchett is going to deliver yet another incredible performance.
Source: Variety