Toni Collette and Odessa Young Will Play Dueling Opera Singers in The Revenge Thriller THE PRIMA DONNA
Toni Collette (Knives Out) and Odessa Young (The Staircase, Assassination Nation) are set to co-star in a twisted revenge thriller titled The Prima Donna. Collette and Young previously worked together on HBO’s The Staircase, and in this project, they will play dueling opera singers.
The drama comes from writer and director Nathan Silver (Thirst Street, Uncertain Terms) and the story “revolves around dysfunctional family dynamics, the dangers of ambition, and the lengths we will go to make our mark on the world.”
The film is set in contemporary Rome, “Collette will play a legendary opera diva who is about to step into the role of a lifetime just as her estranged daughter (Young) shows up at her doorstep, right out of rehab. An aspiring opera singer herself, the daughter summons up the courage to ask to be her mother’s understudy. When her mother callously dismisses the suggestion, she snaps and starts mulling the ultimate revenge, igniting a cut-throat battle of wills.”
That certainly sounds like it’s going to be a crazy mother-and-daughter relationship story! This definitely isn’t going to be the feel-good movie of the year.
The film is being developed at Dark Castle Entertainment and Rough House Pictures and is produced by David Lancaster (Whiplash, Nightcrawler), Julian Lawitschka (Halloween Ends) and Wolfgang Hammer (Inside Llewyn Davis, House of Cards) alongside Dark Castle’s Hal Sadoff (Hotel Rwanda), Ethan Erwin (The Nice Guys) and Alex Mace (Orphan: First Kill).
David Gordon Green is also an executive producer, along with Danny McBride, Jody Hill, and Brandon James from Rough House Pictures.