Sigourney Weaver and Joel Edgerton Will Star in The New Crime Thriller MASTER GARDENER
Director Paul Schrader (Cat People, Dominion, First Reformed) has jumped on abord a new film project to take on titled Master Gardner, and he will direct Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver in the crime-thriller.
Schrader is directing from his original screenplay and the story follows “a meticulous horticulturist (Edgerton) who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager (Weaver). When she demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great niece, it unlocks dark secrets from a buried violent past.”
Sounds like a good project for both Edgerton and Weaver. They are both great actors and they previously worked together on Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings.
HanWay Films is producing the movie and Managing Director Gabrielle Stewart said in a statement, “Paul Schrader is at the top of his form, and HanWay is excited to be collaborating again with one of film’s greatest writer-directors. Master Gardener is the natural successor to the brilliant film The Card Counter which will have its world premiere tomorrow at the Venice Film Festival. Character-driven, sexy and surprising, with plenty of intrigue one would expect from a Schrader film.”
Source: Deadline