\n\tAlexander Skarsg\u00e5rd (\u201cWicker\u201d), Hunter Schafer (\u201cBlade Runner 2099\u201d), Maya Hawke (\u201cStranger Things\u201d) and Harry Melling (\u201cPillion\u201d) are set to star in \u201cThe Confessions,\u201d the latest feature from Canadian filmmaking trio Guy Maddin, Galen Johnson and Evan Johnson, with Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen\u2019s Square Peg producing.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe project, which marks the trio\u2019s follow-up to their Cannes-premiering political satire \u201cRumours,\u201d is being launched at the AFM by CAA Media Finance and WME Independent, which are co-representing North American rights, and French sales company Charades, which is handling international sales.<\/p>\n
\n\tDescribed as a cautionary psycho-dramedy, \u201cThe Confessions\u201d follows a group of condemned nuns bearing witness to the accursed, globe-spanning love triangle of a missing sea captain and his poet wife.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe film reunites Maddin and the Johnson brothers with Square Peg, which boarded the project in early development after collaborating with the filmmakers on \u201cRumours,\u201d which premiered out of competition at Cannes in 2024. Daniel Bekerman\u2019s Scythia Films has also joined the project.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe Confessions\u201d is produced by Square Peg in the U.S., Scythia Films and Galen Johnson, Evan Johnson and Fritzi Adelman\u2019s Thin Stuff in Canada, with the support of Telefilm Canada.<\/p>\n
\n\tSquare Peg\u2019s credits include \u201cBugonia,\u201d \u201cMidsommar\u201d and \u201cThe Drama,\u201d while Scythia Films is behind \u201cThe Witch,\u201d \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d and \u201cFalling.\u201d Thin Stuff\u2019s credits include \u201cRumours,\u201d \u201cA.Rimbaud\u201d and \u201cStrong Son.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI have long been a devoted fan of the great Canadian wizard, Guy Maddin, and his equally brilliant partners, Evan and Galen Johnson,\u201d said Aster. \u201cThey stand humongously tall among my favorite filmmakers in the world, and The Confessions is as singular and beguiling as anything they\u2019ve ever written.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tKnown for their surrealist, genre-bending storytelling, Maddin and the Johnson brothers made their first feature together with \u201cRumours,\u201d an absurdist political comedy starring Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance that follows world leaders who become lost in the woods during a G7 summit.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cBehold, I will do a new thing! Now it shall spring forth!\u201d So sayeth the Bible. (Isaiah 43:19) But our film, part religio-maritime rough-music psychomachy, part hallucinated saltwater shaming parade, has Alex, Hunter, Harry, and Maya on its side, in its belly, so we are already several steps ahead of the Bible. Behold!,\u201d said the filmmaker in an eccentric statement. <\/p>\n
\n\tElevation Pictures will distribute \u201cThe Confessions\u201d in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd (\u201cWicker\u201d), Hunter Schafer (\u201cBlade Runner 2099\u201d), Maya Hawke (\u201cStranger Things\u201d) and Harry Melling (\u201cPillion\u201d) are set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[23974,143181,236,88,115264,381464],"class_list":["post-912945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alexander-skarsgard","tag-american-film-market","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-lighton","tag-hunter-shafer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}