Julia Garner Set To Star in The Dark Thriller ROYAL HOTEL From The Director of THE ASSISTANT
Inventing Anna and Ozark star Julia Garner has signed on to star in her next film project titled Royal Hotel. The film will be directed by Kitty Green who previously directed Garner in The Assistant. Green is also co-writing the script with Oscar Redding.
The movie is inspired by the documentary Hotel Coolgardie, which is quite unsettling. Here’s the description of the documentary: “On a dusty highway between Australia's most isolated city and its largest gold pit lies Coolgardie - where the arrival every three months of a new pair of foreign backpackers to work the only bar in town is a keenly anticipated event. Fresh off the plane and lured by the promise of an authentic outback experience, Finnish travellers Lina and Steph find themselves en route to a dot on the map - to pour beers, replenish depleted travel funds, and live amongst the locals. But their working holiday quickly deteriorates into a baptism of fire. Harangued by their new boss, relentlessly pursued by booze-addled patrons, and prey to the madness and malaise of an environment as claustrophobic as it is isolated - the girls soon realise that to meet expectations out here, they'll need to do more than just serve drinks.”
The upcoming film is described as “a dark feminist retelling of the classic backpacker narrative. The story follows American backpackers Hannah and her friend Sydney, who resort to a working holiday at The Royal Hotel, a bar deep in the Australian Outback, in a tiny, male-dominated mining town. The hotel is notorious for cycling through young female employees every few months, and it isn’t long before they are subjected to mind games and manipulation, trapped in the middle of nowhere, unsure who to trust.”
Production on the film starts this summer and it sounds like it’s going to be an intense and crazy movie.
Source: Deadline