{"id":458986,"date":"2026-02-05T00:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458986\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:53:10","slug":"matthew-macfadyen-joins-seance-on-a-wet-afternoon-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458986\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Macfadyen Joins \u2018Seance On A Wet Afternoon\u2019 Adaptation\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matthew-macfadyen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matthew-macfadyen\" data-tag=\"matthew-macfadyen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Macfadyen<\/a> has signed on to join Rachel Weisz in Tomas Alfredson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/seance-on-a-wet-afternoon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_seance-on-a-wet-afternoon\" data-tag=\"seance-on-a-wet-afternoon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seance On A Wet Afternoon<\/a> adaptation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film, which was scripted by Jack Thorne (Adolescence), is currently in production.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film\u2019s synopsis reads: Myra, a self-proclaimed medium, convinces her husband, Billy, to kidnap the son of a wealthy family so she can lead the police to the \u201cmissing\u201d child and legitimize her psychic abilities. When Myra\u2019s true intentions come to light, however, Billy realizes her plan threatens to consume them both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSeance On A Wet Afternoon is an Element Pictures and Astral Projection production, produced by Robyn Slovo, Ed Guiney, and Andrew Lowe alongside Polly Stokes and Rachel Weisz.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe project is a part of Astral Projection\u2019s first-look and development deal with Fremantle. Film4 and Fremantle financed the film. Executive producers are Jack Thorne, Matthew Macfadyen, Farhana Bhula, and David Kimbangi for Film4. FilmNation Entertainment is handling international sales, with UTA Independent Film Group and CAA Media Finance handling the domestic rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCreatives include director of photography Marcell R\u00e9v (Euphoria), BAFTA award-winning production designer Jacqueline Abrahams (The Lobster), costume designer Sarah Blenkinsop (All Of Us Strangers), Academy award-nominated hair and make-up designer Daniel Phillips (Victoria &amp; Abdul), and casting director Jina Jay (The Night Manager).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Macfadyen has signed on to join Rachel Weisz in Tomas Alfredson\u2019s Seance On A Wet Afternoon adaptation.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,154039,236097],"class_list":["post-458986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-matthew-macfadyen","tag-seance-on-a-wet-afternoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}