{"id":636523,"date":"2026-04-28T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636523\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:54:14","slug":"vanessa-kirby-hanway-on-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636523\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Kirby & Lewis Pullman To Lead ‘The Spacesuit’; HanWay On Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tVanessa Kirby<\/a> (Pieces of a Woman, Fantastic Four: First Steps) and Lewis Pullman<\/a> (The Testament of Ann Lee, Thunderbolts*) will star in The Spacesuit<\/a>, a feature written and directed by Kitty Green<\/a> (The Assistant).<\/p>\n

\n\tHanWay Films<\/a> has boarded for sales, and UTA Independent Film Group<\/a> and CAA Media Finance<\/a> will represent the pic in North America.<\/p>\n

\n\tHanWay noted the film comes at \u201cat a moment of renewed global focus on space exploration\u201d following the recent Artemis II mission to the moon. Per the synopsis, it follows an astronaut (Kirby), who is forced to make an impossible decision after an incident with her co-pilot (Pullman) leaves an indelible stain on a mission in the days leading up to lift off, setting off a tense race against the clock.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pic reunites Green with producers James Schamus (The Wedding Banquet, Brokeback Mountain) and Scott Macaulay (Raising Victor Vargas, Saving Face), with Joe Pirro (We Grown Now, The Wedding Banquet), Rita Walsh (The Wolves Always Come at Night) and Kath Shelper (Samson and Delilah, The Royal Hotel) also producing. Vanessa Kirbyand& Juliet Kirby will executive produce via their production company, Aluna.<\/p>\n

\n\tGreen is known for The Assistant, the Julia Garner-starring feature about sexual harassment in a film production company that debuted at Sundance in 2020. The Australian director followed that up with 2023\u2019s The Royal Hotel, also starring Ozark actress Garner.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are thrilled to be working with Kitty Green again, whose genius is to take on\u202futterly relatable situations\u202fwomen face, give\u202fthem true cinematic canvases and imbue\u202fthem with unbearable tension to provoke bigger conversations and entertain,\u201d said Gabrielle Stewart, CEO of HanWay Films. \u201cWe cannot wait to be taken on this\u00a0journey by Kitty with Vanessa Kirby and Lewis Pullman, and\u202fthe excellent team she has gathered.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tKirby is represented by CAA in the U.S., Hamilton Hodell (UK), Linden Entertainment, and JSSK & Prosper. Pullman is represented by Anonymous Content, CAA and ID, and Green by UTA, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman, Fantastic Four: First Steps) and Lewis Pullman (The Testament of Ann Lee,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,308134,134,308135,308136,6370,344,308137,308138,15531],"class_list":["post-636523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-caa-media-finance","tag-entertainment","tag-hanway-films","tag-kitty-green","tag-lewis-pullman","tag-movies","tag-the-spacesuit","tag-uta-independent-film-group","tag-vanessa-kirby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636523","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=636523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}