FANTASTIC BEASTS Star Katherine Waterston to Star Opposite Jodie Comer in Apocalyptic Thriller Feature THE END WE START FROM
The Fantastic Beasts franchise star Katherine Waterston has signed on to star opposite Jodie Comer (Killing Eve, Free Guy) in the apocalyptic thriller film The End We Start From. The movie is a London-set environmental crisis about a mother who with her newborn child tries to find a way home amid chaotic floods. Waterston will reportedly play the character “O.”
BAFTA winner Mahalia Belo (The Long Song) is directing the pic, from a screenplay by Alice Birch (Succession), based on the novel by Megan Hunter.
The film is being produced by SunnyMarch’s Leah Clarke and Adam Ackland (The Mauritanian) and Hera Pictures’ Liza Marshall (Temple) alongside Sophie Hunter and Amy Jackson (The Nest). Executive producers are Benedict Cumberbatch, Anton’s Sébastien Raybaud, Comer, Raybaud and Cecile Gaget (Greenland), and BBC Film’s Eva Yates (After Love).
Waterston recently starred in the Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan drama thriller Black Flies. She stars in Damien Chazelle’s upcoming Hollywood period epic Babylon, due out at year-end from Paramount, and on Season 2 of the HBO series Perry Mason.
via: Deadline